Re: Serial number formats

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:24:07PM CET:
> According to Colin Watson on 3/16/2009 8:04 AM:
> > Beyond the gettext compatibility issue, there are many files in gnulib
> > that have serial lines in a format not recognised by aclocal that have
> > nothing to do with gettext. Is there a good reason for these? I'd list
> > them here but there seem to be over 300 of them.
> 
> Maybe the solution is to expand automake's list of valid serial lines.

That doesn't help if the aim was to intentionally not be matched by
aclocal, AIUI Bruno.  There is little point in starting an arms race.

> True, it won't help until after the next Automake release, but if there
> are enough files in the wild that use '# file.m4 serial n', it seems like
> we should make it a valid format rather than forcing all those files to
> change.

I am not opposed to change, but there has to be an advantage to doing
it, which I cannot tell yet.

Thanks,
Ralf