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Re: divert()/m4_divert() broken in autoconf-2.64+


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: divert()/m4_divert() broken in autoconf-2.64+
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:20:55 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-09)

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:46:19PM CET:
> 
> Maybe I should document the diversion names of DEFAULTS and
> INIT_PREPARE; I'm a bit undecided on that one.  But I don't want to
> document the values associated with named diversions, so that we are
> free to change the underlying value at a later date (maybe
> INIT_PREPARE will move to 350 if we add a new named diversion that
> needs to be at 300); as long as you go through named interfaces rather
> than raw numbers, then we can make such changes under the hood without
> breaking compatibility with your configure.ac.

Hmm, is it somehow possible for the user to define a new diversion
number between DEFAULTS and INIT_PREPARE by referring to these symbols
only?  If yes, is that something you'd want to allow the user to do?

Cheers,
Ralf




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