On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:45:24PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To be more reasonable (i suppose most ports using autotools in tree
> won't change their build scheme before earth blows itself, maybe
> because of autotools), i'd like to add my tiny-little p.o.v to this
> discussion :
>
> When upgrading a port, it costs little time to check that newest
> version still needs a particular AUTO*_VERSION, and remove the option
> if ports compiles with 'normal-latest' autotools version. But digging
> through whole tree to test each port would be a real waste of time.
>
> Landry
>
Nope, even this is a waste of time.
If you use another version, you run the risk of running into hidden
incompatibilities that we have to fix later....
