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rich@cygnus.cygnus.com (K. Richard Pixley) writes:

| The biggest problem with using multiple interfaces is time.
|
| With a single, integrated interface, I can configure the entire gnu
| suite in about 20 minutes on a sun3, with a single command.  With
| individual tools configured in their own ways, this exercise alone can
| take days.

Well, pardon my skepticism.  This actually does happen, up to a point,
with the MIT X11 distribution, but then X11 is really pretty much focused
around its C libraries.  Where it gets away from that, for example with
xmh, frequently things fail to build, but who needs xmh.  The GNU suite
lacks that internal focus - the only common software seems to be "malloc.c",
which no one is ever really sure you want to use.  And imake ends up being
a major source of whining, anyway, for all that it's considerably slicker
than gcc's configure.

Not to say, it can't be done well, but it's big piece to bite off.

	Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
	donn@cac.washington.edu