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Re: AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME API change
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME API change |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:06:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hello Paul, Ralf, and all!
I think the whole issue of changing AS_BASENAME/AS_DIRNAME now
is unfortunate. (Remember, I proposed an optimization a few weeks
ago; the answer was that it's better to change the API, and I took
for granted that this means we'll wait after 2.60.)
I think there are no big problems with 2.59c, so I guess we could have
2.60 by the end of May, and could return to this issue then.
There are a few bits from these patches which should stay:
- it's better to leave AS_BASENAME undocumented, for now
- it's good to remove AS_DIRNAME from that example, since it is
possible that it'll be deprecated soon
- the addition of a missing ";;" is definitely a good bugfix
- removing that unused dir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])` from autoconf.as
shouldn't hurt
But I propose to back out the other changes, including the
ChangeLog entries for these changes.
Paul, is it OK with you if I install the patch as attached to
this mail?
Have a nice day,
Stepan Kasal
autoconf-20060424-go-west.patch
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