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Re: autoconf-2.69c released [beta]


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: autoconf-2.69c released [beta]
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:55:18 +0200
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[CCing Autoconf list again]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I am assuming that "m4_version_prereq([2.69.301-14265], ...)" does the right 
> thing with Autoconf beta version numbers; if not, that's an Autoconf bug that 
> should get fixed....

Well, I don't know where you got this magic number 301-14265 from.

In my tests with version 2.69c,
  m4_version_prereq([2.70], NEW, OLD)
picked the OLD code, whereas
  m4_version_prereq([2.69c], NEW, OLD)
picked the NEW code.

The version comparison code (see m4sugar.m4, macro m4_version_unletter) seems
to handle prerelease version numbers fine.

In a git checkout of the Autoconf repository, when I run
  build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version
it prints
  2.69c.2-04d14

As far as I can see, versions of the form 2.69.xx-yyy will all be considered
smaller than even the first prerelease (2.69a); so that's probably not a
desirable way to designate intermediate versions between 2.69b and 2.69d.

Bruno




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