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@bagder Might that be a reason to reduce their number? To make the build more reasonable to test?

@lyda it's the constant battle and balance: providing the features and options people ask for and at the same time maintain quality and testability. So sure, I think every option should be questioned from that angle.

@bagder You maintain a 5,000+ line configure.ac file? Holy fuck. You poor man.

Folks, please help this guy get the therapy he needs:

https://opencollective.com/curl

@lyda 5K is nothing

it is actually north of 17,000 lines counting all the individual additional .m4 files as well!

@lyda it has been said that the 4 in m4 is the total amount of people understanding it, and I'm not one of them.

But I get by good enough pretending I know it. That's typically enough to survive and to write decently working configure stuff.

@bagder @lyda Oh no, and I hoped someone would finally explain dnl and changequote to me. Or at least the difference between [something] and [[something]].

@ptesarik @bagder I dunno, I was kind of happy that he seems to be on the same plateau as the rest of us. Knowing it good enough to do what needs to be done and no more.

@lyda @bagder You're right. Daniel is so human and so amiable. Unlike m4.