docs: we still don't have the promised better Java interface

Reported by Michael Zucchi:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-05/threads.html>

See also automake bug#9088.

* doc/automake.texi (Java): Adjust and clarify.
* THANKS: Update.

Reported-by: Michael Zucchi <notzed@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index fd023e2..66b3270 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ Michael Brantley                Michael-Brantley@deshaw.com
 Michael Daniels                 mdaniels@rim.com
 Michael Hofmann                 mhofma@googlemail.com
 Michael Ploujnikov              ploujj@gmail.com
+Michael Zucchi                  notzed@gmail.com
 Michel de Ruiter                mdruiter@cs.vu.nl
 Mike Castle                     dalgoda@ix.netcom.com
 Mike Frysinger                  vapier@gentoo.org

diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index e52cc3a..58561ed 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -7598,11 +7598,11 @@ libtool, The Libtool Manual}) with the @code{LTLIBRARIES} primary.
 Automake provides some minimal support for Java bytecode compilation with
 the @code{JAVA} primary (in addition to the support for compiling Java to
 native machine code; @pxref{Java Support with gcj}).  Note however that
-@emph{the interface and most features described here are deprecated}; the
-next automake release will strive to provide a better and cleaner
+@emph{the interface and most features described here are deprecated}.
+Future Automake releases will strive to provide a better and cleaner
 interface, which however @emph{won't be backward-compatible}; the present
-interface will probably be removed altogether in future automake releases
-(1.13 or later), so don't use it in new code.
+interface will probably be removed altogether some time after the
+introduction of the new interface (if that ever materializes).
 
 Any @file{.java} files listed in a @code{_JAVA} variable will be
 compiled with @code{JAVAC} at build time.  By default, @file{.java}