Development plan -- time to move forward

[Jim Gettys]

> 
> The question that I posed is: can we live with the implicit dependency
> on the Makefiles and the cluttered CFLAGS, both of which we have lived
> with for many years in the monolithic tree, with the caveat that we will
> add AM_CONFIG_HEADER support right after the initial modular release?
> _______________________________________________

The problem with this theory is that it will then forever cause
gratuitous differences between otherwise identical files between the
trees, as soon as these go into the modular tree.

I think it optimistic not to expect people to continue to use the
monolithic tree for quite a while during a conversion process that has
so many different platforms; making it simple to have patches to apply
to both trees during a more extended transition period seems wise to me.

If one tree has these additions, and the other does not, then we are
back to a manual patching process, even if the identical patch would
otherwise apply to both trees....

Or am I confused?  (always possible...)
				- Jim