Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH v2 2/2] dist: add back support for obsolete dist-* options

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 22/08/2012 14:41, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto:
>> > It is a bit ugly that _process_option_list has to know about the
>> > no-dist-gzip option in order to give a warning.  This way, I can give a
>> > superior error message if somebody specifies no-dist-xz.
>> >
> That option would be just flatly rejected by mainline Automake as well,
> so no need to worry.

I do worry, because degrading that to a warning is a regression.

>> > But if you added support for another dist-fooz option you wouldn't have
>> > to touch automake.in nor lib/Automake at all.
>> >
> I wouldn't have to that now either -- the 'dist-(.*)' regex would take
> care of it automatically.  I'd just have to edit 'lib/am/distcheck.mk'.

Yeah, that's correct.

Paolo