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Re: PATCH: Re: zsh and autoconf-2.50

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: zsh and autoconf-2.50
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:36:27 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1010603184301.ZM30412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Bart Schaefer at "Jun 3, 2001 06:43:01 pm"
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
>I suggest this because, upon further consideration, I don't want to
>require zsh developers to install autoconf 2.50.  They may need the
>older version of autoconf for other packages that have not been updated
>for the 2.50 changes.
>
>Thoughts?

Cute technique.  But previously we have never attempted to maintain
compatibility with more than one version of autoconf; we have always had
a flag day where all developers have had to switch to the new version, and
it has never been a problem.  When dealing with packages as convoluted as
ours, such as to require a specific version of autoconf, it does not seem
too much of a burden for developers (specifically, developers that modify
the configure source) to marshall more than one version of autoconf.

I'm glad we won't need that config.status kludge any more.

-zefram

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