Re: serial in branch-1-5 [[and branch-2-0]]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Salut!

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> I'd be curious to know how many they
> are.  (I know many people use aclocal without using automake, but I
> have no idea how many people maintain aclocal.m4 by hand nowadays.)

Not many I would think, but libtool receives patches if we make a
release that breaks support.  The evidence will be in the list
archives, but is hard to find when you don't remember the name of
the thread or author :-(

>>I'd rather automake relax it's regex to continue support for
>>existing libtool serial lines though...
>  
> So do I.  But as I've said, it's not only Libtool; basically every
> maintainer has it own syntax.  I'll bring the issue on the gnulib list
> to see what gets out of there.  Ideally we should settle on a uniform
> syntax rather than letting aclocal cope with many syntaxes.

Agreed.  However, I think future releases of automake shouldn't force
people to upgrade their other tools at the same time.  This is a
criticism that has been levelled at autotools in the past.  Our users
are much happier if they can upgrade one piece at a time.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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