Hi Bob, Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:49:38PM CEST: >>On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>>>Development libtool offers few user-visible features where a new >>>>feature is defined by new functionality. Most new "features" are >>>>internal design changes. > >>>- no stupid C++/Fortran 77 checks for C-only users (plus several >>>hundred KB smaller configure scripts) >> >>For example, the first item you list is actually a "bug fix" since it >>was not a problem in the 1.4.X releases. The bug was added in 1.5. > > Oops. I did not know that, I never used 1.4 in practice. :-/ > I retract that then partly, I did not know 1.5 had regressions over 1.4. > I never meant to "sell" regression fixes as new features.
Bob, that's really not fair! The reason 1.4 didn't do extra C++ and f77 tests was because it only supported C!!! The multi-language-branch merge was the driver for bumping the release number to 1.5 -- a mere 2.5 years ago. Cheers, Gary. -- Gary V. Vaughan ())_. [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org} Research Scientist ( '/ http://tkd.kicks-ass.net GNU Hacker / )= http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool Technical Author `(_~)_ http://sources.redhat.com/autobook
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