Re: who cares about autoconf 2.13? [WAS: README/NEWS]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter!

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> [[...]] keeping a list of unsupported platforms in the readme is silly :)

And even supported platforms, since we can never test all combinations
prior to each release.

> Right now, libtool-2.0 will require changes to some people's
> configure.ac scripts. I know of a few projects that call the generated
> libtool script for various reasons during configure. I would behoove us
> to find these project maintainers and see if we can accomodate their
> needs.

But we have stalled the 2.0 release mostly so that we can fix that
problem, so (assuming I can figure out how to fix it) if release 2.0
needs a change to configure.ac in order to keep working then it is a
bug in libtool.

(As an aside, following that argument to its logical conclusion, there
is no need to keep my controversial parallel install patch in HEAD --
so long as we continue to take great care not to break backwards
compatibility.)

> There may be some other issues that we simply haven't thought
> about yet

My point exactly.  But I will consider them as bugs when they are
pointed out to us :-)

>> Do we still support Autoconf 2.13 (on branch-1-5 and/or branch-2-0)?
>> If so, maybe we should explicitly drop that support in 2.0 to save
>> ourselves the additional testing?
> 
> As far as I am aware branch-1-5 supports it, I haven't tried (thus
> saving on testing?).

:-D

If you have time, I would be interested to hear confirmation that a
2.13 project (there's plenty in Gnome and Enlightenment) will continue
to bootstrap and build correctly with the head of branch-1-5 plus
whatever ancient automake and autoconf the maintainer is still using...

Does anyone have any objections to dropping official support for 2.13
in branch-2-0?  We need to start dragging people into the late 20th (sic)
century :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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