Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Some things about Autoconf

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 04:22  PM, Alexander Strange wrote:

>
> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Br'fin wrote:
>> Do you have a list of mpw files I should be removing?
>
> Here's some other files that should be renamed (in alephModular/):
> README.txt to README
> changelog.txt to ChangeLog
> gpl.txt to COPYING
>
> Automake expects files with these names (it also wants NEWS, but I'm 
> going to automatically create a blank file with that name in the 
> script that runs all these)
>
*eyebrow quirks* That's interesting, do you happen to know the reason 
for that? Or is that just general GNUification of a project's structure?

I don't mind doing it, I'm just curious as to why automake needs these 
non-code files...

-Jeremy Parsons