Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103850: update_autogen

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/07/2011 09:16 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Paul Eggert writes:
> 
>  > But why not use the latest Autoconf version in the cron job?
>  > I don't see the downside.
> 
> People will depend on the cron job, and neologisms will creep in.

(shrug)  I don't see that as something requiring us to use old tools
when we generate software.  If someone inadvertently puts in
something that requires Autoconf 2.68, then we can yank it out,
just as we yank out code requiring GNU Make 3.82 or GCC 4.6.0 or whatever.

Again, for maintainers it's no big deal.  I just hope that when we
cut tarballs for non-maintainers that we use the better tools.