sf ac-archive 0.5.51

[Guido Draheim]

New tarball and rpm of the SF ac-archive can be found at

         http://ac-archive.sf.net

in the download section. The discussions on the ac-archive
maintainers list http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=ac-archive
have led to some changes in the tools section apart from
the usual set of updated autoconf macros registered in the
autoconf macro archive. Most prominently, macros can be marked
as "obsoleted" when they have been replaced with newer/better
one in the ac-archive or the autoconf core package. The
`acinclude` tool will warn a user about these, so they can
reconf safely with an updated ac-archive for some time before
the macro gets deleted for real from the archive database.

have fun, guidod

* what is the ac-archive

The Autoconf Macro Archive provides documented and tested
macros that are useful to many software writers using the
autoconf tool, but too specific to be included into autoconf
itself.

The Autoconf Macro Archive assembles macros from different
places and packages them at your convenience. It is an
offer to autoconf macro writers to have useful definitions
shipped worldwide (redhat distros have an ac-archive rpm
installed automatically) ready to be found by users and
thereby tested it by many around.

One should not expect that macros from the ac-archive fulfil
the same quality expectations that we are used to from
autoconf core macros as they have been reviewed just by
one or a few developers. At the same time, it is better than
reinventing the wheel for a thing again and again.

Given that background, please don't hesitate to submit your
macro to address@hidden so that a wider
audience can have a look at what YOU have found to be
useful as a macro in your developments. We can review it,
publish it, ship it along, and perhaps it gets adopted
widely later on.