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Re: libtool and autoconf
From: |
Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: libtool and autoconf |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:15:27 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.21i |
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:37:46PM +0200, Alexander Mai wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:48:09 +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> >On the contrary, NEWS is exactly the file users are supposed to read
> >whenever you untar a new release. It is after all a list of "user
> >visible changes since the last release".
> [...]
> >> To repeat myself: I don't think that any GNU or whatever
> >> standard forces people to read a ChangeLog/NEWS or whatever
> >> files which are usually just for 'insiders' to follow
> >> development? Why should a new user to libtool care
> >> about it's history?
> >
> >Agreed in the case of ChangeLog. But if you are upgrading from one
> >release of libtool to another, why _wouldn't_ you want to know what
> >has changed?
>
> Yes.
> But I'm stubborn and still believe that all information
> of this kind should be in my printouts. And I neither do have
> nor even want to have a NEWS.ps ... :-)
I see. Could I talk you into reading the release notes in each
release announcement? Paraphrased in:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/news.html
??
> autoconf 2.5x is not a choice for many users.
> There's too much legacy stuff (.in/.m4) out there that
> can't be used. This won't change for a long time ...
> I probably can't supply fixes, but will keep on
> reporting problems with my autoconf 2.13/libtool 1.4.x setup -
> if there are any :-)
Okay, thanks. I definitely want to keep Libtool 1.4.x compatible with
Autoconf 2.13. I imagine libtool 1.5 may be as much as 12 months
away, so autotools users will have had almost 2 years to absorb the
excellent advances made in Autoconf 2.5x...
Cheers,
Gary.
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