On Thursday 18 November 2010, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2010-11-18 20:31 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > I have a first, very rough draft of the patch (see attachement); it is > > nowhere complete, but I'd like to ear from you anyway for early criticism, > > suggestions, and maybe contributions ;-) > [...] > > +...@vindex @code{AM_V_GEN} > > +...@c FIXME: wouldn't $(AM_V_SILENT) be clearer? Should we deprecate > > +...@c $(AM_V_at)? It should be kept for backward-compatibility, of > > +...@c course. > > AM_V_GEN is a long enough name as it is; AM_V_SILENT would be even worse > in this regard. > > AM_V_at is very useful for targets which have multiple commands. It's > not that interesting to see "GEN foo.bar" five times in a row. > There's probably a misunderstanding here; I was suggesting to rename `AM_V_at' to `AM_V_SILENT', for clarity; and deprecate *only* the old name `AM_V_at'. Does my proposal make sense now?
Regards, Stefano