Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

[Sam James]

"Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, at 11:38 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> We're overdue for a new release, so here's a snapshot in preparation
>> for that, which I want to call 2.73 (skipping 2.72).  There has never
>> been an autoconf-2.72 release, yet `git describe` now prints 2.72c and
>> has been printing strings like v2.72a-92-g8db00aa8 for years.
>
> Just as a note, I thought this version numbering scheme was weird too the 
> first time I encountered it, but the historical practice has been that 2.72a, 
> 2.72b, 2.72c, etc. are beta releases of 2.72.

FWIW, the historical practice doesn't work very well for at least
Gentoo's package manager, and I believe this is true for other
distributions too.

That is, 2.72a > 2.72, although 2.72_alpha < 2.72. So Jim's decision
in this case has worked well here at least.
>
>>   https://meyering.net/ac/autoconf-ss.tar.xz      1.4 MB
>>   https://meyering.net/ac/autoconf-ss.tar.xz.sig
>>   https://meyering.net/ac/autoconf-2.72c.tar.xz
>
> Are you able to upload this to ftp.gnu.org as an official beta?
>

or alpha.gnu.org, I suppose.

>> NEWS
>> =====================================
> ...
>>       Port to compilers that moan about K&R func decls
>>       More fixes for compilers that reject K&R function definitions.
>
> Compatibility with compilers that reject unprototyped function declarations 
> should maybe get a more prominent NEWS entry.
>

Yeah, given it's the impetus.

> zw

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