Re: The current state of move to autoconf 2.5

ms> I don't know about the technicalities---but how hard is it to ms> just drop the ---with and --enable prefixes entirely? If not, ms> I believe we should just go with one of the two. Stephen> We can't win this one. It's trivial to drop them, we just lose all of Stephen> the autoconf 2.5x facilities for dealing with app-defined options. Stephen> Having spent a lot of time working on configure recently, IMO this Stephen> improvement in maintainability is worth the user pain. Stephen> If you go with just one of the variants, then you'll be incompatible Stephen> with all other autoconf applications, and users who build XEmacs once Stephen> a year (unlike you, who will get used to this in a couple of weeks) Stephen> will get confused. I don't know what "incompatible" means in this context, given that everybody who understands autoconf 2.5 seems to admit that the dividing line is at least fuzzy. But I'll take your word for it. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla