Re: Plan for single Makefile

[Pavel Roskin]

Hi, Tom!

> I've spent some time thinking about how we can change Automake to
> support a single large Makefile, but still keep a Makefile.am in each
> directory for maintainability.

I would argue that some people may prefer many Makefiles so that "make"
can be run in every directory, but a single Makefile.am, just like single
configure.in exactly for the same reason, for maintainability.

Anyway, I would like to see Automake 1.5 (or should it be 1.6 to be
similar to linux/gimp/gtk versioning?) released first.  Releasing
1.4-based "ultra-stable" versions is not sufficient.  Automake has a lot
of useful features that should become available to the users who don't
want to use beta versions.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin