Spice on cygwin?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:40:59AM -0400, Robb, Sam wrote:
>> "  BECAUSE AUTOTOOLS IS A SCREAMING INSANE MESS OF NIGHTMARE GIBBERISH
>> SPAGHETTI NONSENSE THAT WILL SUCK EVERY LAST DROP OF SANITY OUT OF
>> YOUR BRAIN WITH A STRAW AND LEAVE YOU REELING, DROOLING AND GIBBERING
>> IN A CORNER DRESSED IN RAGS AND ROLLING IN YOUR OWN FAECES.  "
>
>Wow.
>
>What's truly and honestly amazing is this is one of the more
>*restrained* comments I've ever seen made about autotools.
>
>BTW, is there any truth to the rumors that the autotools maintainers
>are, in fact, also the primary authors of the US tax code?  You have to
>admit, that would answer a *lot* of questions about both, um,
>"projects"...

Hmm.  I think I see an opening for a major new product.

I envision something called "TurboConf" that costs about $79.95 and
leads you through the complicated process of forcing a program to use
autoconf/automake.  We could set a tech support hotline, have
interactive web chat support, etc.

This could be huge.

cgf