From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103850: update_autogen
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:47:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9EAF8C.70303@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lizlcr8u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On 04/07/2011 09:16 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Paul Eggert writes:
>
> > But why not use the latest Autoconf version in the cron job?
> > I don't see the downside.
>
> People will depend on the cron job, and neologisms will creep in.
(shrug) I don't see that as something requiring us to use old tools
when we generate software. If someone inadvertently puts in
something that requires Autoconf 2.68, then we can yank it out,
just as we yank out code requiring GNU Make 3.82 or GCC 4.6.0 or whatever.
Again, for maintainers it's no big deal. I just hope that when we
cut tarballs for non-maintainers that we use the better tools.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-08 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-04-07 2:18 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r103850: update_autogen Glenn Morris
2011-04-07 5:03 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-07 16:28 ` Glenn Morris
2011-04-07 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-08 0:08 ` Glenn Morris
2011-04-08 2:04 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-08 4:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-08 6:47 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-04-08 16:09 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-09 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-09 17:50 ` Paul Eggert
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