-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ben Pfaff on 7/16/2009 10:19 PM: > However, the warning about Autotest in the Autoconf manual is a > little off-putting: > > This section describes a feature which is still stabilizing. > Although we believe that Autotest is useful as-is, this > documentation describes an interface which might change in > the future: do not depend upon Autotest without subscribing > to the Autoconf mailing lists. That text has already been removed from what will become the 2.64 manual. > > How concerned should I be in practice about Autotest changes? Is > there any chance that Autotest might be "frozen" or "stabilized" > soon? The implementation is still in some churn (for example, figuring out how to make parallel testsuites portable to more shells). But the basic API is quite stable; projects like tar and bison have been using it for years, and we have managed to avoid any backwards compatibility breaks in spite of all the internal refactoring. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpgYqoACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDlBwCgtHSCya8IdowB63B0GtwF6Q1d 780An2GJKWHaoW82Nqs/hLW94rrYln5P =CsvT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
