Re: Bug Resilience Program of German Sovereign Tech Fund

2024-06-15 Thread Christoph GrĂ¼ninger
Hello Karl, don't get me wrong. I think GNU Autotools will not vanish and projects will rely on it for at least another decade. I am thankful for your work and we need to keep this project alive. That is the reason I am proposing to apply for contributions. Still, I think many projects do not n

Re: Bug Resilience Program of German Sovereign Tech Fund

2024-06-15 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Christoph, All Automake release announcements since 2.13 warn about future Automake 2.0 incompatibilities. I moved that noisy warning from the top of NEWS into a separate NEWS-2.0 file a couple of releases ago. At the beginning there is a meeting between you (maybe more people,

Re: use of make in AM_SANITY_CHECK (was: improved timestamp resolution test)

2024-06-15 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Karl Berry wrote: Jacob, [*sigh*] You said it. About this whole thing. I rather wish this bright idea had never come to pass. It has delayed the release by months. Oh well. Still, could we use make(1) for *all* of the testing and not use `ls -t` I guess it is technically possible, b