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. We can't win this one. It's trivial to drop them, we just lose all of the autoconf 2.5x facilities for dealing with app-defined options. Having spent a lot of time working on configure recently, IMO this improvement in maintainability is worth the user pain. If you go with just one of the variants, then you'll be incompatible with all other autoconf applications, and users who build XEmacs once a year (unlike you, who will get used to this in a couple of weeks) will get confused. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.