Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:26:55 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What process?  This is just a message, it changes nothing in the
> > process.
> 
> The process that includes people reading and understanding and acting on 
> messages. Complicating the messages complicates the process.

I think calling my proposal "complicating the messages" is an
exaggeration, to say the least.

> > AFAIR, last time you tried this, some people here objected to forcing
> > them install Git hooks.
> 
> They would not be forced under my most recent proposal. They could run 
> './autogen.sh autoconf' rather than plain './autogen.sh'. All that would be 
> changed would be a minor simplification in the default.

We will have to ask those people, won't we?