Re: FYI: History/Timeline

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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Salut Alexandre,

Congratulations on your anniversary release!  I really enjoyed the new 
chapter in the manual too.  I hope you don't mind a few gnits ;-)

Cheers,
        Gary.

On 19 Sep 2004, at 22:30, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> +Automake is described as ``an experimental Makefile generator''.
> +There is no documentation.  Adventurous users are refereed to example

referred

> +0.28 also introduces the @code{AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS} variable and the
> address@hidden and @code{--gnits} options, the later being stricter.

latter

> +The test suite is born.  It contains 9 tests.  From now on test cases
> +will be added pretty much regularly (@pxref{Releases}), and this
> +proved to be really helpful later on.

? pretty much all the time
? pretty regularly

> address@hidden 1996-03-15 Gordon Matzigkeit starts writing libtool.

Yay! ;-)

> +anymore after this year, and Autoconf then really stales.  The

stagnates

> +desolated Autoconf @file{ChangeLog} for 1997 lists only 7 commits.

desolate

> +Actually Akim works like a submarine: he will pile up patches when he
> +work off-line on week-end, and flush them in batch when he surfaces
> +back on Monday.

while he works off-line during the weekend, and ... resurfaces on Monday

> address@hidden 2001-04-25 Gary V. Vaughan releases Libtool 1.4

W00t! :-b

> +versioning}).  This was mainly pushed by Havoc Pennington, taking the
> +GNOME source tree as motive: due to incompatibilities between the

? source tree as inspiration

> +1.6, and the upcoming 1.4-p6 release were the last release by Tom.
> +This one and the followings will be handled by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.

those following

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