On 11/22/2011 04:35 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
1. "Automake 2" turns out to be a failure, it gets abandoned, and "Automake 1" becomes again the center of all our developement efforts. No problem for you, since you're still using this older automake.2. "Automake 2" is a success, and we drop support for Automake 1. At this point, it shouldn't be too big a pain for you to convert to the new automake (a good documentation about incompatibilities between, and/or transition from, automake 1 and 2 should exist at this point). Also, assuming that many other packages are using automake 2 by now, and thus requiring GNU make, it should be much more acceptable for the NTP build system to do the same.
A half transition happens, which turns out to be a nightmare until Automake 2 adoption actually becomes common. This is exactly what happen between Automake 1.5 and Automake 1.8, each of which introduced many backwards-incompatible features, and between Autoconf 2.50 and "some time later".
Paolo
