Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: m4 directories?

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Graham Wilson <bo...@de...> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:11:24AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> I have taken this acinclude.m4 approach in bogofilter and am not very
>> happy with that, updating individual macros is then more effort than
>> necessary. I'd rather stick with a file per macro (or file per logic
>> group of macros, call it module if you like).
>
> Do you mean that you'd have to search through the global file, rather
> than replacing just a single file?

Yes, that's exactly it.

> If so, I'd rather go through that each time (I wouldn't think it would
> be too often) rather than have a bunch of M4 macro files laying
> around.

I've found that solution to be impractical and would rather have a set
of files lingering on the floor that I can nuke individually.

> Additionally, can't the license file be added to the top of the macro
> file, or to the COPYING file?

That might be doable but makes the COPYING file a bit lenghty and
cumbersome to read.

> Sorry for being persistent, I would just like to keep the tree as
> organized as possible.

That's why I went with m4-local first :)

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