On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:19:09PM +0600, Aleksey Demakov wrote: > What is exactly the need to require the latest versions of autotools?
The latest is the greatest. They contain less bugs. The current automake files in dotgnu clearly show that people try to workaround bugs which obviously are not even documented enough that anybody remembers why the workarounds are there :-) Golden Rule of Open Source (TM): If something doesn't work and you are using an old version, use the latest and greatest and your problems might magically go away. > I'd would rather stick to a more conservative approach of changing > version requirements. Like if it becomes a really big maintenance > burden to support a particular old version we might move the > prerequisite version just past it. Do you have concrete arguments against the version set I mentioned? I mean - I have no problem with another one if it is well argued, but it has to be defined somehow, and if nobody sees real issues with the latest and greatest - why not use it? I find it a little bit strange to use older and less sophisticated and buggier versions with the argument of being conservative? Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
