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Re: [Automake-ng] [FYI] [ng] maint: use name "Automake-NG" in more place


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Automake-ng] [FYI] [ng] maint: use name "Automake-NG" in more places, bump version
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:54:56 -0700
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On 02/16/2012 03:27 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> It's time to start renaming this project for good, if we want to
> avoid nasty confusions with mainstream Automake.  But renaming also
> the 'automake' script to 'automake-ng' could cause gratuitous
> incompatibilities and unexpected errors, so we prefer to instead
> bump the version from '1.11a' to '2.0a'.
> 
> The renaming "Automake" -> "Automake-NG" is mostly for README files
> and some comments.  Doing that for the documentation would be
> trickier, and might cause extra spurious conflicts when we merge
> 'master' into 'ng/master', so we leave that move for a later time.
> 

> +==                                                                       ==
> +==   This is *not* mainstream Automake, but rather "Automake-NG": an     ==
> +==   experimental, non-hostile fork of it.  Automake-NG mostly differs   ==
> +==   from mainstream Automake for the fact that its generated makefiles  ==

s/for the fact/in/

> +==   only targetd GNU make rather than portable make.                    ==

s/targetd/target/

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