[Glibc-bsd-hackers] Re: [PATCH] GNU/KNetBSD support

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:22:42PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Gotta reinstate my shell account at the FSF, synchronize libltdl changes 
> I've made for m4, add a feature to diagnose version mismatch between 
> libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh, take advantage of aclocal-1.8's m4_include 
> feature -- this will
> reduce the distribution tarball size by 20-40% by my estimation.

Is there anything I can do to help?

> Unless the Automake team release 1.8 very soon, I'd hope to have it done 
> well inside a month behind the Automake release, with a beta a week or two 
> before that.
> [...]
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:50:25PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Automake 1.8 itself cannot be released before Autoconf 2.58.
> Please take the queue :)  Aside from this dependency, I hope
> we can have the first 1.8 beta (1.7b) within a month.

Uhm.. that makes it at least two months. Can't you release branch-1-5 in its
current state (that is, when you can access gnuftp again) and then work on the
new features for 1.6?

Even if the improvements in branch-1-5 are not worthy of a new release, adding
support for two new systems should IMHO help justifiing it, specialy if they
are GNU-based systems.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)