Dermot McCluskey wrote: > George, > > >> 1) Will a new OSR is required? > > You should talk to a PM. > >> 2) We currently have automake-1.9 and automake-1.10. Can 1.11 >> replace 1.10 or do we need to keep both? > > SUNWgnu-automake-110 is an "Uncommitted" interface, > so you'd need to follow the proper process if you > want to remove it. > > Also, you would need to test and be fairly confident > that things that build with 1.10 still build with 1.11 > before removing 1.10.
So, it seems to make sense to do the 1.10.2 upgrade independently of anything involving 1.11. > > >> 3) Should we provide a plain automake command linked to one of the >> versioned commands, probably the latest? > > That was the original plan when 1.9 and 1.10 were > integrated, but there were objections to this during > ARC, so it was decided to just go without the > symlinks. See PSARC/2007/293 for details. Yeah, I saw that previous case. > > If you want to try again can get the link added, I would > support it. I'd like to pursue it if we plan to add additional versions of automake. Let me review the previous objections a little. Thanks, George > > > - Dermot
