>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> --- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russ> It may be worthwhile considering whether to just break backwards
Russ> compatibility to some degree and fix things once and for all,
Russ> resulting in an autoconf 3 release.
>> I'm more in favor of a soft transition (which does not mean there
>> are no earth quakes underneath :).
Earnie> This could be affected with a package rename/fork. Change the
Earnie> name to Autoconf2 and allow the major focus of change be to
Earnie> Autoconf2 and only minor bug fixes for Autoconf.
This is what I was answering to, changing the name does not change the
momentum.
It appears more changes are possible without breaking anything than I
first thought. We will push this logic as far as it can go, then
maybe it will be time to break something. Right now, there are
compromises, but not enough to force the big jump.
Akim
