Re: m4p: an implementation of GNU m4 in Python

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 05:48:02PM -0400, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou wrote:
> > On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > All I can say is that autoconf surely probes the limits of m4 behavior
> > > in every regard. So any incompatibility whatsoever is likely to be a
> > > problem. --happy hacking, karl.
> >
> > I plan on byte-for-byte compatibility with GNU m4 1.4.19.
>
> I'd rather you aim for byte-for-byte compatibility with the
> just-released 1.4.20 instead.

Okay, will do!

> > It seems to
> > work that way for now, but I'd like any bug reports. I also plan to
> > try it more extensively myself with autotools projects soon, but I
> > figured that I'd release it as soon as possible.
>
> I will test to see how it fares against my m4 scripts.  I suspect it
> won't be long before I find an incompatibility...

Yes, in fact I just realized that I forgot to implement $@. Let me
shape it up a bit. The v0.3 version is not yet ready for wider
testing.

Regards,
Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou