Il 31/12/2012 11:32, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: > It is indeed possible that the real reason that pushed me to remove > AM_CONFIG_HEADER was the fact that I got caught in a "cleanup frenzy" > when I was removing other (real) cruft. You are starting to partly > convince me of that.
These patches are at least a little better, so I'll just let your subconscious finish the task of convincing you. (Also because almost nobody is using autoupdate anymore I believe, so a first step using AU_DEFUN would not provide much benefit). > That said, I still believe that old cruft, even if completely harmless > as in this case, should be removed eventually (and that macro has been > cruft for almost 10 yars now). The real issue with the removal is that > it is has been too abrupt, with no transition from doc deprecation to > runtime warnings to error message to complete removal (despite the fact > we had all the time to implement this transition, and not doing so has > been 100% my fault). These patches tries to remedy this situation. Yeah, I agree entirely here. Paolo
