Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 09:33 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > While there were big differences between Automake 1.4 and 1.5 (partly 
> > due to the length of time between releases) that would warrant parallel 
> > installation, the differences between newer Automake minor series has 
> > been a lot smaller.
> >
> > A number of the minor version bumps seem to have been due to increases 
> > in the minimum required autoconf version rather than a significant user 
> > visible changes.
> >    
>
> It may need to be clarified to upstream automake guys that if two
> versions are compatible, they should have the same binary name?
>  
Maybe Daniel can answer this question.

From what I can tell, the differences between recent automake versions 
(1.7, 1.8, 1.9, etc) are closer to the type of differences between GTK 
2.0, 2.2, 2.4, etc rather than between GTK 1.2 and 2.0.  I think the 
executable name changes happen more out of the fact that it is linked to 
the package version number than deliberate decisions to break compatibility.

James.