Re: configure.ac

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:08:20PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Gary> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:29:34PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >> Would someone see a problem if I adjust Autoconf to support
> >> configure.ac in addition to configure.in?  I think `.in' was a very
> >> bad name (which in addition introduces an undesirable confusion
> >> between autoconf instantiation and config.status instantiation).
> 
> Gary> Why not allow both for the next release, but print a warning
> Gary> that tells the user configure.in is deprecated when they use it?
> 
> I never meant to remove configure.in support, and I think the warning
> might even be too much.  But I'd like to have the doc promote
> configure.ac.

Okay.  I'll buy that =)O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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