Re: [patch] improved version information

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:58:02PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: All I can see is that we are making it more difficult for programs to
: parse --version.  And again, I am not kidding.  Programs such as card
: and help2man are expecting strict formats for this, and I paid special
: attention to be conform to their expectation.
: 
: It's all broken today.
: 
: Please, revert.

: Humans are intelligent enough to properly read configure --version.
: If they are not, then they are just _not_ concerned by this
: information.  Formalism should not be broken to please novices.  I
: really regret I gave up this debate and accepted this patch.
: 
: Please, revert.

Don't panic.  It conforms to all the rules if you accept the concept of
having changed the configure program names to differentiate between the
thousands of different configure scripts that are out there.

Give me real examples of configure scripts being installed for a
good reason, or programs actually parsing the output of
<package>/configure --version in a correct manner according to
the rules written in the GNU Standards.

  Lars J