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Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Hidden files in autoconf 2.70 distribution?
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:06:20 -0800

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:49 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile.
> >
> > I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the
> > time to find another way to record the release version.
>
> Perhaps we should change git-version-gen and GNUmakefile to put this
> version-number stuff into a file name that doesn't start with '.'. (I don't
> know why there are two such files now.)

I chose those names, because using "." files in that manner feels natural to me.
If that offends someone enough to change the names, I won't object.



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