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Is there a way to possibly formalise GNU Autotools so it can be edited by a GUI?

by mofosyne on 4/16/24, 4:50 AM with 1 comments

CMake has a GUI which is nice, but it's likely because the CMake settings is highly formalised.

But Autotools does have a lot of commonality so if we restrict the autotool configuration into a structure (and give enough par-sable annotations) then it might just be possible to do something similar.

  • by theGeatZhopa on 4/16/24, 5:08 AM

    Why not use a LLM bridge here? Either as directly interpretation -> execution

    Or as a tool to find a way of to formalize, to find distinctive areas where it's possible and where not. Just a thought...