Re: Bison 3.7 released [stable]

[Frank Heckenbach]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2019-01/msg00000.html
> 
> Hey, I know personally Antoine.  I didn't know if was in this area
> too.

Small world! :)

> > (1½ years ago, not even a reply)
> 
> Well, the problem is mostly that there are no active maintainers on
> the Autotools.  So it is not that the comment is disregarded, it's
> just that there's no-one on the other end.

Oops! For such a central tools to make GNU programs, this would
spell bigger problems in the medium and long term ...

> And fortunately, this is changing: Zack Weinberg is currently wrapping
> the next release of Autoconf, and maybe he plans them to move onto
> Automake.  I don't know about that.

Maybe he can at least fix the permission problem. This should be a
smaller issue (at least compared to parallel configure).

But will he read those old mails at all? Sure, I could send another
bug report, but I wouldn't have to add anything besides a "me too"
to Antoine's mail.

Regards,
Frank