Ralf Wildenhues asked: > What exactly is the point of using a different format and extraction > code than aclocal does? ... > Gettext is using a format slightly incompatible to the aclocal one here,
aclocal exploits '# serial' lines since 2005-02-01. Gettext is using the format that you call "slightly incompatible" already since Jan 2002 at least (in gettext 0.11). What was the point of encoding in 'aclocal', in 2005, a syntax that not all widely spread autoconf macros were using? > I have so far seen no reason > whatsoever why aclocal should change, rather than Gettext. The aclocal > format for serial numbers can embody all needed information, as noted by > Colin. Colin's proposal, to put the version number before the versioned item, was not serious. Bruno
