On another front ... Automake's HACKING file says that "micro releases", e.g., 1.17.1, should not add any new features. Does anyone know if there is a technical reason for this?
I just added Jose's Algol 68 support, but our next release feels a lot more like 1.17.1 to me than 1.18. I think the rule should be more like micro releases should not have new features that interfere existing behavior. Otherwise virtually every release would be a minor release, and/or new releases would be less useful than they could be. I certainly made several 1.16.x releases that had new features (sometimes too many), and I'm not aware of any particular resulting problems. A couple of the x.y.z releases made before me also had new features, if interpreted strictly, though clearly Stefano et al. were a lot more careful about this than me. What version is your bike shed :)? -k
