Re: [Automake-NG] Removal of INCLUDES in favour of AM_CPPFLAGS

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Akim.

On 02/02/2013 08:24 AM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Le 1 févr. 2013 à 10:35, Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
>> So, is anyone using or playing with Automake-NG, or at least
>> contemplating the idea to do so in the short term?  Or should
>> we just let the project die?
> 
> I subscribe to all the good opinions about NG that have been
> made here.  I would definitely use it once there is a release
> (I have already been criticized several times for having used
> then-CVS versions of the Autotools in Bison, and I don't want
> to go in that direction again).
>
Oh, but I wasn't suggesting to use Automake-NG to bootstrap an official
GNU package!  Having any such package depending on an alpha-quality
software sounds indeed very wrong.  What I meant was that it would be
nice to have an experimental branch in the official repositories of
some GNU packages, where interested maintainers can experiment at
using Automake-NG; that would already provide invaluable real-world
feedback.

> Actually I am eagerly waiting
> for a release, I really want to be able to rely (cleanly) on
> GNU Make.
>
That would be an alpha release though; we can aim at a series of
0.x releases (making it clear that backward-compatibility won't
be guaranteed in any way until the 1.0 release), but I'd start
doing that only after the current code base has seen some more
exposure to the real world.

> I wouldn't split the repository either.
> 
OK, I'm fine with that.  Less work to do :-)

Thanks,
  Stefano