I stopped feeling bad about #autotools files (configure.ac Makefile.am m4/*) when I realized how much noise a new maven package throws on your disk.
The main difference is: for #maven / #npm / #cargo / #gradle / #bazel / ... these are autogenerated.
That’s why I started #conf: https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/conf — auto-generation for autotools projects with `conf new --lang <language>`.
It needs more templates … contributions welcome!
(just send me a patch or a link to pull from)
#gnu #make #freesoftware