On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:31:21 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > if it works for
> > devs - then it's good. if it doesn't work for users because they updated
> > their autofoo packages... TOO BAD. autofoo is for developers. using cvs
> > basically gives you the
> > responsibility of a developer when it comes to running autofoo tools.
> > developers job it sot produce a source tarball - that is the final product
> > for "consumers" (users). autofoo is used to create that tarball. it is not
> > used again after that point.
> 
> as already noted in previous threads, going from <automake-1.10 to 
> >=automake-1.10 changes the error from an ignored runtime one on the user's 
> system to a build time failure on the developer's system
> 
> in other words, they're both wrong ... you're just choosing the one 
> that "seems to work" :P

which then snowballs into having to use new tools that also require yet net
tools themselves... :)

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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