On 01/12/2013 04:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
As a rule of thumb on when to remove a macro - I would personally like
> being able to write a configure script that works on both RHEL 5 (or
> CentOS 5) (autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6) as well as rawhide (eventually
> automake 1.14 and beyond), for as long as RHEL 5 remains a viable
> Enterprise-level distro.
>
I'm quite unconvinced of the value in trying to support this. Developers
should just keep their tool reasonably up-to date IMHO; if they can't
do so through their package manager, they should do so by installing
from source.
Keeping autotools might be trivial in one-man-projects, but imposing
that kind of requirement in larger teams is just causing head ache and
friction, as most members wouldn't barely know what autotools are and
even less interested in spending any time on upgrading tools that should
just work under then hood.
Cheers,
Peter