Hello, On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:45:13PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Neither can I, but there has been a move in some GNU packages (Autoconf, > Gnulib) from #ifdef to #if, which I've never understood. If we want a > move back, we need to know the incentives that caused it in the first > place, and see whether the reasons for it are (still) valid, to avoid > bouncing back and forth. that's why asked here. Let's wait for an answer from Paul. > I believe the feedback loop on some of the more obscure issues w.r.t. > Autoconf can easily execed a couple of years. Not sure if this is one > of them. Well, the move from #ifdef to #if happened sometimes around 2000. Autoconf 2.50 already used #if in all code (w/ 1 exception). Autoconf 2.13 used #ifdef in the code almost exclusively (w/ one exception), but the manual used #if. Stepan _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
