[Asterisk-Dev] Dev call 1.2 release discussion

[Steve Underwood]

Greg Boehnlein wrote:

>On Fri, 6 May 2005, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
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>>On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:31:51PM -0500, Brian West wrote:
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>>>Autoconf and pals have been offered up twice totally working and they  
>>>were going to help maintain it.. but in the usual fashion Digium and  
>>>gang ran that guy off.
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>>the point is not having the working when they come, or for a while,
>>but to be sure that there is widespread knowledge on how to maintain
>>them so when the guru in charge disappears someone else can take over.
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>>To this, there is nothing like good documentation and easy and
>>stable tools.
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>And autoconf is about as well documented and stable as you can get.
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The documentation sucks rather badly, as soon as you search it for 
anything more than a trivial issue. Why do many developers complain so 
bitterly about the amout of time they spend fighting with these tools? 
Partly it is their inflexibility. Partly it is because the documentation 
is so bad.

Autoconf used to be stable, but recent versions seem that loosing that 
good quality. Most throw up pages of "report this to the autoconf 
developers" notices, too.

Regards,
Steve