Re: Autom4te.cache

[Dan Kegel]

address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:13:14AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >
> > > > > > "Dan" == Dan Kegel <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Dan> The name, autom4te.cache, is quite cryptic.
> > >
> > > This directory is a cache for autom4te
> >
> > ... a tool which most autoconf users have never heard of,
> > and is only used deep within the new autoconf.  Why
> > expose its name?
>
>
> Because it is documentation and has no vocation of being kept in the shadow
> of autoconf.

I see the name of this cache is currently
autom4te-2.53.cache
In other words, its name contains the autoconf version number.
Why not be less confusing, and use the autoconf name as well?

If autom4te were really "not in the shadow" of autoconf, surely
you'd use 1.01, or whatever the version number of autom4te was.
Since it doesn't have its own version number, clearly autom4te
is just a part of autoconf, and should hide as much as possible.

That's my two cents, anyway.  You're free to ignore it.   No reply neccessary.
- Dan