On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 07:20:05PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > I don't know how ffmpeg or other packages are supposed to adapt to the > > new interface. Perhaps we could put special case code in get_conf to > > check for "PACKAGE_VERSION" and redirect to the new interface? > > That seems complicated. To adapt to the change in name of the variable, > they can try both PACKAGE_VERSION and PACKAGE_VERSION_OPTION with > get_conf, that seems ok to me?
If there is still a customization variable to access for this, then I don't see why the name has to be changed. I haven't had any new thoughts on this since my previous emails on the topic, I'm afraid. I remember that not using PACKAGE_VERSION was mainly due to a clash with a symbol defined by automake or autoconf, which is an implementation problem that we could try to work around, rather than changing our public interface. I'll try to propose a change once I've had time to look at it.
