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Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD
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Albert Chin |
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Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:41:58 -0500 |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:54:59PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> [Moved to libtool list]
>
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote on libtool-patches:
> >I kept quiet a while ago when Bob first suggested ditching the CVS
> >branch-2-0 and releasing CVS HEAD as 2.0 after a bit of stabilization.
> >Now I estimate that, for us combined, it might save us a man month
> >(whoohoo, maybe even a mythical one :) or more.
> >
> >This would be a strong argument to do it, IMVHO.
> >
> >The only problem is: I don't know how we can get CVS HEAD to work fine
> >with released Autoconf/Automake versions. ATM I'm not even sure which
> >issues there are:
> >- LTLIBOBJS in subdirs
> >- ?
>
> The showstopper for this plan is that libtool is holding up the next
> release of all the other autotools[1], so we can't release HEAD as is
> without causing headaches for everyone else, because it relies on
> unreleased versions of the tools that are waiting for another libtool
> release.
libtool-2.0 should not rely on newer autoconf/automake. People simply
won't adopt it. RHEL 4 ships with autoconf-2.59 and automake-1.9.2.
I'm not against requiring the latest, as of now, autoconf/automake,
but relying on autoconf-2.60 and automake-1.10 seems way too
aggressive.
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Noah Misch, 2005/08/22
Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD,
Albert Chin <=
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Albert Chin, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Albert Chin, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/23
- Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Peter O'Gorman, 2005/08/24
Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/23