On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I'd like to change some things about how the code handles the information
> about its own version number.
>
> The version number would be set in configure.in as in
>
> VERSION='1.2.3'
>
> (Keep it in configure.in because it would be nice to have this information
> available globally. One fine day we might even automatically make tarballs
> with this.)
So, we have to change and autoconf that periodically, instead of just
having a simple 'version.h' file that we vi?
It doesn't sound to me like something that *belongs* in configure.in, as
it is not required for any tests that configure requires ...