> Before starting the tests, i have verified that master still works
> fine, so issues i am finding are indeed due to changes on the
> automake branch, not due to unrelated commits, and don't affect the
> master.
Thanks for doing the tests!
> It won't come as a surprise that i consider the whole direction this
> is taking completely insane. We shouldn't pile layers and layers of
> abstraction on top of each other, always more and more, becoming
> more and more complex and hence, more an more error-prone,
> unmaintainable, and insecure.
Do you say that relying on gnulib and automake makes groff less
maintainable? I strongly disagree. Of course, I'm a GNU person, and
you aren't...
> Even autoconf is basically obsolete today.
It is certainly not, as long as operating systems like OS X are such
an incomplete mess.
> Besides, the diff is completely unreviewable. It literally is a
> 154479 line diff (yes, over 150 thousand lines of changes) touching
> 261 files.
I agree, thus my request to put this into a branch. However, it is a
*huge* amount of work to split this into smaller chunks, ...
Werner
