From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Tool version in HACKING Date: 15 Apr 2002 15:59:13 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y9fpoyfi.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87adscre31.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <200204091928.MAA18084@onyx.he.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018879040 20780 127.0.0.1 (15 Apr 2002 13:57:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16x6yt-0005P3-00 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16x6yf-0003n1-00; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip75.dokom.de ([195.138.42.75] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16x6xh-0003i1-00 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 6432 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Apr 2002 13:59:13 -0000 Original-To: Gary Houston In-Reply-To: <200204091928.MAA18084@onyx.he.net> Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:387 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:387 Gary Houston writes: > > on 2001-11-22, you have removed the required tool version numbers from > > the HACKING file (see ChangeLog entry below). Why did you do this? > > > > I think they are an important bit of information since Guile will > > indeed not work with all old versions. > > > > 2001-11-22 Gary Houston > > > > * HACKING: Modified the Hacking It Yourself section. > > Removed the version numbers from the tools. > > The versions seemed a bit out of date, and the last policy I remember > is that the latest released versions are always used. Ahh, I see. I didn't know about the "latest released versions" rule. > Since it's easy to find out what the versions are, it doesn't seem > necessary to list them in the file and saves the confusion when the > released versions differ from the file versions (is the file correct > or did somebody just forget to update it?) Yes, that makes sense to me. Since we can now request specific automake and autoconf versions from Makefile.am and configure.in directly, we should just do this. I.e., we now have AC_PREREQ(2.53) in configure.in which will fail for autoconf versions less than 2.53. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel