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Re: Libtool 1.4.3


From: Earnie Boyd
Subject: Re: Libtool 1.4.3
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 07:48:10 -0400
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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>Wouldn't it be better to get libtool 1.5 out the door?  The resources
>>required to achieve a releasable product are similar and CVS libtool
>>already contains most of the fixes that would go into a 1.4.3.
>
>
> But it also contains more features.  Releasing 1.5 should be done by
> the maintainers, not by a "community" process; instead I think that
> such a process is perfectly valid to review patches and ChangeLogs and
> put them together.
>

The community are the maintainers, therefore a maintainer has spoken for
a minor version increment, rather than a patch release increment.
Enough has changed to increment the minor version number.

> Yes, libtool would-be-1.5 has been used by gcc at least since 3.0, so it
> should be pretty good, but I think that it is easier (in terms of
> brainwork, not of needed resources) to do a "definitive" 1.4.x release.
>

Since I'm one of the community, I suggest the release to be 1.5 and that
Akim's suggestion for AC_PREREQ a strong point.  Perhaps, both a 1.4.3
and a 1.5 where 1.4.3 does a AC_PREREQ 2.13.

Earnie.





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