On 7 Jul 2003, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Steven G. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-11/msg00009.html > > Akim understands the issues here better than I do, and I defer to his > expertise here. However, he's been busy so I'll step in and give my > own reaction. I think these changes will be improvements to Autoconf > even if they're not perfect and can be improved later, so I'm inclined > to accept them. > > A few things, though: > > * We need copyright papers from you for a big change like this. > I'll follow this up via private email.
Done; I did this years ago. (I've already contributed patches of significant size, e.g. the Fortran-to-C name wrappers stuff.) > * The changes need documentation, both in NEWS and in autoconf.texi. Of course; I was waiting for feedback to see if any substantial changes were required. > * We need to integrate the changes into the current CVS autoconf. > (I don't think this should be too much trouble.) That's not a problem. I just did a 'cvs update' on my autoconf tree, and it doesn't appear that any conflicts have arisen. Thanks for your response! Steven
