Re: Next Libtool Point Release Pending

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:52:19PM CEST:
> > That's true, but I think that was because we tried too hard to make
> > the 2.x branch perfect, and spent altogether too much time pumping out
> > more and more 1.5.x releases with patches merged back from an ever
> > diverging code base. As long as we're careful not to do any of this
> > things, then we can avoid repeating history.
>
> Do you really want to reopen this can?  IMVHO 2.x took so long because
> it was destabilized *too* *much*.

Both of you are correct.  2.x was very destablized for a couple of 
years and then we became paranoid for a couple more years in order to 
make up for past excesses.  The test suite became a whole lot better 
in the mean time.

We should always keep in mind that libtool is just a 'tool' and 
eventually it should be feature-rich enough to only require periodic 
updates for compiler and operating system changes.  We are not far 
from that objective.

Bob
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