Re: [bug-inetutils] ANNOUNCE: Daily snapshot and autobuild service

[Simon Josefsson]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    >    Hi!  I added inetutils to my daily build scripts, and from now
>    >    on there should be a daily snapshot available from:
>    >
>    > Very cool.  Maybe a note in README-alpha would be useful about
>    > this.
>
>    Yes, I suggest:
>
> Great! Install away. I hope Sergey, Alain, and co agree that you don't
> need permission to actually commit things; just give a heads up about
> what you are doing so that one can comment and stuff (I suppsoe this
> was a kind of heads up :-)

Thanks.  Ok to install m4/autobuild.m4 too?

Accidentally, installing it will fix the problem of having to 'mkdir
m4' in order to build inetutils from CVS, which is nice.

>    >    Any objections to installing the patch?
>    >
>    > My only objection is that m4/ shouldn't be used for this macro,
>    > the macro should be put in acinclude.m4 instead.
>
>    acinclude.m4 is deprecated according to the Automake manual:
>
> Oh, I didn't know that.  That sucks, and I vehemently disagree with
> the stated reasons as well.  But on the bright side, it doesn't sound
> as if it is deprecated, just discouraged.  Do you know if the autoconf
> maintainers have any plans on actually removing support for
> acinclude.m4?

I haven't seen any such plans, but given that many projects still have
a acinclude.m4 I doubt it will be soon.  Still, I think GNU projects
should follow the best-practices set by other GNU projects if
feasible.

/Simon