From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101037: * configure.in (AC_PREREQ): Require autoconf 2.66 to stop version churn.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:40:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlj8eio6q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yxqsk2mwu0h.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:07:42 -0400")
>> What means "version churn" and why is it a problem?
> When regenerating configure in the past few days 2.65 and 2.66 where
> used alternatively a few times. The large diffs generated each time
> make it hard to verify that the change did not have unintended
> consequences.
I think that's a rather minor issue compared to the problem of developers
not being able to regenerate `configure'.
> I had to install 2.66 locally too (replacing 2.65 that I also had
> installed locally). It takes about 5 seconds to install, so...
That's a good hint that it's on the wrong side of bleeding edge.
Could you please revert this change until distributions like Debian
testing update their packages?
Stefan
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2010-08-10 10:42 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101037: * configure.in (AC_PREREQ): Require autoconf 2.66 to stop version churn Stefan Monnier
2010-08-10 12:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-10 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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