RE: FYI: Splitting shell.m4, tests/shell.m4, tests/m4sugar.m4

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akim Demaille [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:55 AM
> To: Pavel Roskin
> Cc: APatche
> Subject: Re: FYI: Splitting shell.m4, tests/shell.m4, tests/m4sugar.m4
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Pavel> It appears that "autoupdate" uses tests/m4sugar.m4 instead of
> Pavel> the top-level m4sugar.m4 disregarding --autoconf-dir
> 
> Arg!  Thanks for tracking this down!
> 
> Pavel> So it's probably not such a good idea to use the same
> Pavel> name.
> 
> Nope.  In fact I've been looking for a good name, but found no
> interesting name.  The name is somewhat important since that's what's
> displayed when you run the tests...
> 
> What would you people suugest:
> 
>         [ ] atm4sugar.m4        atshell.m4
>         [ ] test-m4sugar.m4     test-shell.m4
>         [ ] m4sugar-test.m4     shell-test.m4
>         [ ] m4sugar.at          shell.at
> 
> Personally I like the last one.  

Me too :-)

> In fact, I somewhat regret that
> Autoconf uses configure.in and aclocal.m4 and not configure.ac and
> local.ac, but that's too late.
> 
> Of course if we agree on `.at', the other guys would be renamed.  

Of course!

> I
> don't like the first one because it doesn't distinguish Autotest
> source files from Autotest application files.
> 

Regards,

        Bernard

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