* Yavor Doganov wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:10:49PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Let's use a specific example: > > > > AC_INIT([Pkg], [1.0], [bug], [pkg], [website]) > > > > Do you think that 'autoconf-2.63 -Wall -Werror' should have errored out > > for the website argument? > > Of course it should not and it would not error out. 2.63 is history, > so there's no way a hypothetical feature we're discussing now to be > available there
It was meant as an example of the kind of changes that can happen again in the future, and that, had the excessive-argument-warning been implemented in 2.63, would have caused an error with the above invocation, thus an incompatible change. I don't suggest backporting anything. Cheers, Ralf
