On 02/27/2013 02:31 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: >> And while you *might* have changed my mind before (because you have >> valid points, and maybe it would have better to err on the side of >> safety), I have now already rewritten maint, so rather than messing >> up by rewriting it again (to its old value, granted, but a rewrite >> nonetheless) and reverting an already made decision (and made after >> considerable discussion and not negligible efforts), I'd rather >> stuck with the current minor "mess". > > Rewriting "to the old value" makes a _huge_ difference (at least with > git), because people that haven't done a pull or whatever of the "new > value" will then have no problem at all. > > So whether another rename causes more or less pain depends on what > proportion of people that have a pointer to your repository do > frequent updates. As automake seems to be the sort of project that > has mostly "casual" contributors, I'd wager many people _haven't_ > pulled the "changed" version, and so would be _helped_ by a > rename-to-the-old-value (and hurt by not doing so). > As I said in my reply to Peter, feel free to reach a decision on-list and implement it. I'm not going to touch the Automake repository myself for some (possibly several) days anyway.
Regards, Stefano
