Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

[Eric Blake]

On 10/29/2014 04:29 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:

[we tend to avoid top-posting on technical lists]

> Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should
> be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that?

For GNU projects, the 'gnu' flavor still makes sense, even if it could
use a little modernization such as easier automation of generating
ChangeLog from version control.  And while these days, automake is
probably used by more non-gnu projects (where 'foreign' may make more
sense) than GNU projects, that's still not a good reason to toggle the
default.  I like what the GNU Coding Standards represent, and deviating
from them deserves a mention in configure.ac to make it apparent that
you thought about it.

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