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Re: Current versions of automake and autoconf
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Current versions of automake and autoconf |
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Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:05:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
> (Answering only for Automake, because I've also been confused by
> Akim's last statements about announcements that shouldn't be
> considered official.)
Sorry about this. I was trying to make a difference bw pre-released
on my web site, and really released on GNU site. Maybe that was wrong
:(
It turns out that a beta, even if you emphasize the need to test it,
is not tested as thoroughly as a real release. So I was finally quite
happy with having a (pre-)release spread in our community first, then
have some real feedback before making the real release. This caught a
couple of weak releases by the past, but I realize that this releasing
scheme is a bit obscure. Unfortunately it relied on this obscurity:
it is important, if you want some real feedback, that many people use
it as a real release. So if I flag it as a pre-release, I doubt it
will be tested as thoroughly :(
In the future I'll try to be clearer.
And I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the feedback on Autoconf :)