Re: [patch] improved version information

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:37:43PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: We are going backwards again and against some well established
: conventions (yes, again, the GNU std are underspecifying).
: 
: I _regret_ we changed this.  We are breaking what other people already
: did, e.g.,
: 
: src/ace/doc % texi2dvi --version                                 nostromo 
17:30
: texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.0) 0.43
: card 1.3 (GNU a2ps 4.13)

Sure.  Take into account that those are programs you *install* on a system!
It's not obvious which package they come from when they are installed.
You should never actually need to find out which package a configure script
comes from, because it should be obvious from the directory it lies in -
the source distribution directory for the package.  If you find a
"configure" program in your system $PATH, it's not a configure script.

Also, you can expect two "a2ps" programs from different packages to be
"interchangable" in a sense.  You can not interchange configure from
fileutils with configure from textutils - they are completely different
programs, hence one is now named "fileutils configure" and the other is
named "textutils configure".

  Lars J