Re: proposal: inetd improvements.

[elric%imrryr.org@localhost]

On 1275478982 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
der Mouse wrote:
>
>>      9.  convert it to libevent for portability and provide autoconf
>>          so that it can be built on other OSes (not used on NetBSD
>>          of course).
>
>Well, IMO autoconf is not an improvement.  My opinion on autoconf (or
>more precisely on configure scripts, especially autoconf-generated
>configure scripts) can be found in my blah post of last November at
>ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/blah/2009-11-20-1.html (also available
>over HTTP at
>http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/2009-11-20-1.html).

Please note that I said ``not used on NetBSD of course''.  I don't
like autoconf any more than you do.  I just have constraints where
it is the accepted solution, however suboptimal.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://Imrryr.ORG/~elric/