Re: [XBoard-devel] new developer release coming soon

[Michel Van den Bergh]

> hmm, I wonder what the best way is to resolve this...My take would be to
> leave the 0.18 in. I think all newer distributions have 0.18 now (the
> gettext version was released almost 2 years ago) and older ones could
> patch it during the package building... this would leave out people who
> want to compile it themselves and are on older distributions and those
> should be able to install gettext 0.18 by hand... My solution therefore
> would be to pump the configure requirement up to 0.18, so that people
> get an error message in case they don't have the correct version
> installed...
>
> cheers
>         ARUN
I don't see the point of this. xboard works fine with 0.17.
So why make 0.18 a _requirement_? Many people run distributions
older than 2 years (e.g. for engine testing).

Michel