Lars> On a personal note, I want to add that the release cycle for
Lars> both autoconf and automake is entirely too long.
You're right.
Lars> Why was it not possible to release bugfix versions of both
Lars> tools before putting in all this new stuff (>5000 lines added
Lars> in autoconf ChangeLog since Jan 1999), to get at least the
Lars> glaring errors out of the way?
For automake, it is simply a question of time. Even once it became
obvious that we needed a bug fix 1.5, I didn't have time to do that.
I'm really looking for a new automake maintainer, who can be fairly
active at least for a while.
Tom
