From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:20:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200608261711.k7QHBUS15318@f7.net> <85lkpaywjk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85irkd3j86.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156753362 22772 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2006 08:22:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 10:22:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHcOE-0000zs-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:22:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHcOE-0004D5-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHcNd-0004Am-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHcNZ-000486-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHcNY-00047h-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.235] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GHcWQ-0000zt-8m; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id E30C0FAC0B2; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:21:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:37:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58971 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > If it is really necessary to ask them to upgrade, I agree. But this > is not our case. Are you saying we should ask people to upgrade for > no good reason at all? When I started (again) to hack on CVS emacs years ago, I also had to upgrade makeinfo (to 4.3 at that time). Now, years later, I had to upgrade to makeinfo 4.8. Fine! It took just 10 minutes. Just like we prefer that users upgrade to the latest version of emacs (to avoid spending time on bug reports for older versions), I'm sure the maintainers of makeinfo also prefer people to use the latest version. So why should emacs (of all projects) not use an up-to-date version of makeinfo? I don't see the problem at all. Still, wasn't there a time where the make process would barf with an error message telling what version of makeinfo was required if the installed version is too old??? BTW, isn't it about time [after the release] to get rid of the P_ macro, and assume that all systems have an ANSI-C complient compiler these days? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk