Hello automakers and gnulibers.
Is anyone still interested in this feature? If yes, I have some
simple updates, second thoughts, and new ideas, for which comments
are welcome. If not, let me know before I start investing more
time on the implementation!
On Monday 06 September 2010, Stefano
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 07:12:27PM CET:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg3.html
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+# Backward-compatibility test: try to build and distribute a package
Hello Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:08:34PM CEST:
This patch increase coverage for a macro I'm planning to touch
soon (to make it use AS_HELP_STRING). OK for maint?
Does *anybody* use AM_WITH_REGEX? Have you checked?
This seems so obsoleted by gnulib that I
On Friday 12 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:08:34PM CEST:
This patch increase coverage for a macro I'm planning to touch
soon (to make it use AS_HELP_STRING). OK for maint?
Does *anybody* use AM_WITH_REGEX?
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:12:53PM CET:
On Friday 12 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
This seems so obsoleted by gnulib that I don't think
it is worth investing any more time into.
In fact, I now think we should deprecate it, and then remove it. WDYT?
Good
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:57:05PM CET:
How about
* tests/backcompat6.test (Makefile.am): Grep the output from the
test program, rather than diffing it, to avoid spurious failures
on MinGW/MSYS due to LF vs. CRLF line endings.
Sure, thanks!
Ralf
