Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools

[PaulHoule]

https://www.owlfolio.org/development/autoconf-swot/

[ab5tract]

This should include a year in the title so as not to give the impression that this was written after the xz incident.

[mdaniel]

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230364 (May 2022; 87 comments)

also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39963598 (What Autoconf Got Right) and similarly relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39913905 (Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon; Apr 2024; 164 comments)