C Possible future changes

The starconf system is still quite new, and there are certain features of it which might change in the light of experience. These are summarised here, as a warning of what is not finalised, as reassurance if some of the documentation here seems out of date (in which case tell the document maintainer), and as a note of what aspects might need further discussion.

• The starconf application currently only generates two files -- you should not assume this will always be so.
• There are only two options to STAR_DEFAULTS -- the set will likely expand.
• The description of the tree-wide bootstrapping process in Section 3.2 is likely to change as more of the Starlink legacy and new code is brought under this build system umbrella. The interface to the `make world' build may well change (see Section 2.4).
• The default automake strictness is --starlink, which is currently almost identical to the standard automake --foreign strictness. We may change this, and add other files.
• The AC_PROG_FPP macro described in Appendix B will very likely change its interface.