On 10/6/05, Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
 i really think this is overblown.  you're talking about backward
 compatibility with something that was changed only a few betas ago.  the
 whole point of the beta process is not to be straitjacketed into
 compatibility.  if you really care about building *every* tarball,
 you've already got a switch statement for various versions; adding
 another statement and an associated s/-enable/-with/ is not hard.
 keep in mind that reducing the randomness will be a *big* win for a
 large number of XEmacs installers in the future.  keeping it will make
 life slightly easier for a dozen current users, at the expense of all
 the others. (hell, if you really think it's going to be a burden, just
 send me your scripts and i'll rewrite them for you.) 
Ben,
I realize my scripts can be fixed with some amount of programming.  I
am not interested in your help, thank you.
I still think that aliasing '--with-foo' to '--enable-foo' makes the most
sense.
  - Vin