Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] contrib: drop 'multilib' support

[Akim Demaille]

Ciao Stefano!

Le 2 juil. 2012 à 09:44, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

> Hi Akim,
> 
> On 07/02/2012 09:20 AM, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> 
>> Le 30 juin 2012 à 23:11, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
>> 
>>> Its tests are hopelessly failing now, it is complex to debug (and I'm
>>> too ignorant about its aims and its implementation to do so), and anyway
>>> it should probably be rewritten to take better advantage of GNU make and
>>> Automake-NG features.  So let's drop it for now, to avoid slowing down
>>> the Automake-NG development.  Anyone interested in the 'multilib' will
>>> send patches re-implementing it after out first Automake-NG beta is out.
>>> Probably several months from now.
>> 
>> Do we have known users?
>> 
> See:
> 
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2012-01/msg00109.html>
> 
> And the following thread.

The concept of "contrib/" in Automake is not very clearly defined.
It is my understanding that we (package maintainers) must copy
the snippets by hand (so these contribs are installed?  Or are
we expected to get a tar ball), and upgrade them by hand too?