[Asterisk-Dev] Converting the Asterisk code to autoconf

[Tilghman Lesher]

> This has been discussed many, many times in the past and I'd invite you
> to search the archives on this topic.  Basically, it comes down to the
> fact that everybody who has volunteered to do this in the past has
> disappeared within several months of volunteering to do this.  There are
> no core developers who know autoconf/automake, and we aren't willing to
> make the jump without some assurance that there will be people around to
> support the changeover long past that date.
> 
> Basically, we've been burned before, and we're reasonably cautious about
> being burned again.  If the programmer you're hiring to do this is
> willing to stay around for 3-5 years, to support it, that might become
> an option again, but we haven't seen that type of commitment from
> anybody who wants autoconf/automake.
> 

Point taken.  What I would like to do is to have the programmer
write a step-by-step User Manual (which I need anyway) to show the
Asterisk developers how to make sure that their code is autoconf
compatible.

-Ramon