On 2007-08-20 21:35-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:10:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > > > [...] so long as we give some advance notice. Thefore, I think immediately > > > after 5.8.0 would be appropriate so that our first release in the 5.9.x > > > series and all development and stable releases after that would exclude > > > the > > > autotools-related files. > > > > > > I am bringing up this issue now for discussion because if we do decide to > > > eliminate the autotools-related files by 5.9.0, then we should give > > > advance > > > notice of that change in the (5.8.0-RC1 and) 5.8.0 release notes [...] > > > Andrew Ross writes: > > I second your plan. Out autotools support is already getting out of date > > and generating extra error reports and hence difficulties for our users. > > I think 5.9.x would be a good time to drop it. > > I concur.
OK. I will take responsibility for putting a prominent sentence or two in the 5.8.0-RC1 (and 5.8.0) release notes about this important planned change for 5.9.0 and beyond. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
