On 29 October 2014 22:39, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > [we tend to avoid top-posting on technical lists]
Sorry, me sleepy and not paying enough attention. > > > Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should > > be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that? > > For GNU projects, the 'gnu' flavor still makes sense, even if it could > use a little modernization such as easier automation of generating > ChangeLog from version control. And while these days, automake is > probably used by more non-gnu projects (where 'foreign' may make more > sense) than GNU projects, that's still not a good reason to toggle the > default. I like what the GNU Coding Standards represent, and deviating > from them deserves a mention in configure.ac to make it apparent that > you thought about it. All good and well, but then I may have misunderstood Arne's original point. If he's trying to get the GNU style to be "good enough" for more projects, I think that's a moot point because as you said most projects use it outside of GNU, and they would probably still find enough issues with it that they wouldn't use it — and they would probably still complain about bad autotools doing bad things because they copy-paste from the wrong project. If we're talking of making life easier for GNU maintainers, I have no opinion because I have no stakes on the matter at all. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
