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Re: [Automake-ng] [FYI] [ng] maint: use name "Automake-NG" in more place
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Automake-ng] [FYI] [ng] maint: use name "Automake-NG" in more places, bump version |
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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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