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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:38 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>  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.

If so, then we need to explain better to upstream how parallel install
should work.

The binary name should change *exactly and only* when the interface
contract is broken, i.e. the binary becomes *backward* incompatible.
i.e. when any existing scripts or files referring to the binary would
break if they got the new binary.

Havoc