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Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?
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Warren Young |
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Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf? |
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Sat, 25 Aug 2018 10:43:56 -0600 |
On Aug 25, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Basin Ilya <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I have a VM with RHEL 6.8, because that's what our customers build our
> software on. And when I change anything in configure.ac, I test it there.
> Of course, such conservative attitude is unnecessary for open source
> projects, but supporting four year old autotools looks reasonable.
Any open source project should know its audience. I run one where we maintain
compatibility with software up to about 10-12 years old, just because it’s that
sort of project. Consequently, new releases get tested on a CentOS 5 box, even
though that’s “unsupported” by the distro and its upstream.
It sounds like the developers of the software project the OP is currently
fighting with don’t understand that they have users not out on the bleeding
edge with themselves. He should be getting that message to them, not blaming
Autotools.
Version numbers, properly used, are not “useless.” See
https://semver.org/
for one particularly well thought out argument.
Done properly, a good version numbering system lets users make correct
inferences about what a given version change means. That’s highly useful.
The trick is getting developers to declare their versioning system’s meanings
and to stick to it.
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- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Paul Eggert, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Basin Ilya, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Nicholas Clark, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Basin Ilya, 2018/08/25
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- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Keith Marshall, 2018/08/27
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Eric Blake, 2018/08/27
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