On 01/08/2012 07:27 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Reference: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-01/msg00005.html> > > On 01/05/2012 11:14 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >>> So, in conclusion, here is my simple proposal: >>> >>> 1. We deprecate the support for HTML testsuite output in the documentation >>> of >>> the 1.11.3 release. >>> >>> 2. In the 1.12 release, we remove it from the automake core, providing >>> instead >>> (in the automake tarball) an "extra" `.am' fragment that can offer a >>> similar >>> (and hopefully completely equivalent) functionality. >>> >>> Opinions? >> >> I am a fan of reStructuredText and rst2html but definitely agree that this >> functionality does not need to be in the core of Automake and that there only >> needs to be sufficient provision to hook in some formatting tool to produce >> alternate output formats. >> > Thanks for the feedback. Let's start deprecating the feature in the > documentation then. I'll push the attached patch by tomorrow evening > if there is no objection. > I've now pushed the patch to the new *rewindable* branch:
experimental/check-html-deprecate to be eventually merged into maint. Further patches should follow shortly. I will post them (together with this a copy of the already-posted patch, for completeness) in a new thread on the automake-patches list. Regards, Stefano
