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Jim> How would folks feel about switching Guile to this system?
Jim> Among folks who have used both Guile's way and GTK+'s way,
Jim> which do you prefer?
I update the glib/gtk+/gnome trees almost daily, and I tend to prefer
the autogen approach. It scales much better to having many developers
who might have slightly different versions of automake/autoconf.
Jim> [...] The disadvantage is:
Jim> - Building from CVS or a snapshot would now require autoconf,
Jim> automake, and libtool, in addition to GCC and GNU Make,
Jim> since the files they generate would no longer be provided
Jim> in the repository.
It is a problem, and it means that we have to also occasionaly (or
often) put out a real .tar.gz snapshot.
Another annoyance is that bootstrap is always a bit more error-prone,
even if you have all the tools. A typical example is if a package's
aclocal file isinstalled in a different prefixe from aclocal itself.
Future versions of automake/autoconf might do away with aclocal, which
might help on that front.