Some thoughts on the modularization effort

[Shawn Starr]

Imake has bitten me with something like this. the OS name became a '1' :-)

You are aware of the IRC channel for #xorg-devel? it's also good to come here 
for 'live' discussion too.

Shawn.

On March 30, 2005 23:15, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > GNU Auto* isn't perfect, Imake sure isn't either :(
>
> Ain't that the truth!!
>
> I got caught quite nicely once by a rather nasty little surprise
> as a result of the preprocessor being ... well ... dumb :)
>
> Somewhere I had a "-Dsco=1". Somewhere else I had a "sco.c".
> Imagine my surprise when I couldn't get "1.c" to compile :)
>
> What I like most about the GNU stuff is its use of M4. Granted,
> M4 is a bit of a black box to most people. The CPP is certainly
> more well known, but M4 is *so* much more appropriate. That was
> a really good call whoever decided to use it.
>
> Mmmm makes me wonder ... why has there never been a nutshell
> on M4? ....
>
> $ mutt tim at ora.com :)
>
> Kean