Re: M4 in SuSE 7.2

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:21:59AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Gary> FYI, I recently upgraded my workstation to SuSE 7.2, and
> Gary> discovered that they now ship m4-1.4o as /usr/bin/m4!  That is a
> Gary> vote of confidence if ever I saw one...
> 
> I find this a bad news.  All we win is the fact that some people will
> develop modules using an obsolete interface, and their code won't work
> with 1.5.  Users and maintainers are likely to pay the price.

Hmmm... does 1.4o have an early version of the module system then?  Then we
would need to go back in time even further to find a branch point for 1.5, if
we want to go down that route.

> I still have rage against those who came on *my very private* ftp,
> took something named Autoconf 2.14.1, and shipped it.

Now *that* does suck.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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