Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:06:03AM CEST: >> I noticed my recent doc changes caused slightly-too-verbose >> build output. This fixes it: >> >> Cc'ing bug-automake, in case Ralf thinks it makes sense to let >> the consistently capitalized name be used some day. > > Actually, I was thinking for a while that these names are all ugly, and > replacing them with something like > SILENT = $(AM_V_at) > SILENT_GEN = $(AM_V_GEN) > SILENT_* = $(AM_V_*) > > instead would be better. But that means we have a dead set of variables > to support (at least for a while) ...
Hi Ralf, I do prefer the readability of $(SILENT), etc. but wouldn't names like that impinge too much on the user's name-space?