Re: [PATCH 1/5] Drop support for 'configure.in' as the Autoconf input file

[Peter Rosin]

On 2012-12-29 00:39, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> The autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac' instead.  The use
> of 'configure.in' has been deprecated in Autoconf since at least
> the 2.13 -> 2.50 transition, and future Autoconf versions (starting
> with 2.70 probably) will start to warn about it at runtime.  Automake
> has been warning about it since the 1.13 release.

Hi Stefano,

Sluggish projects with the repo in CVS and still using configure.in
will positively *hate* this change. You are forcing these projects
to either get a dent in their history or to change tools. I suspect
distro people will also hate this change, especially so since the
sluggish projects might just be so sluggish that they stay with older
tools just because of this change, shifting the burden to the distro
people. Is the burden for Automake really that large? Do you really
want to risk rushing out a 1.14.1 reverting the whole thing when
the pressure starts to build?

Cheers,
Peter