Re: ac macros and ac releases

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Thomas Porschberg wrote:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> thanks for your instructions.
>
> Just a thought:
> How about collect this information in a separate file
> and extend autoconf with an option --min-required-version
> which outputs the minimal required version for putting
> in AC_PREREQ ?

That would be nice - but it doesn't address the problem that autoconf 
maintainers also modify the interfaces to existing macros, etc., so they 
no longer work as they did.  So you would also need a 
--max-allowed-version (given a corresponding --base-version).

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