Akim Demaille writes:
> BUt really, I can't understand all this fuss about this. I find the
> current solution to be excellent and conform to the GNU std.
The new solution also conforms and was found by some people to be more
excellent.
> I'm just tired of debating of such micro details, hence my `yes'.
> But frankly, I find that
>
> Bison 1.28a configure, by GNU Autoconf 2.49e
This is not what we have.
> is not as good as what it used to be before
>
> configure (Bison 1.28a) 2.49e
The problem here is that 2.49e is *not* the version of the configure
script. This would be equivalent to any given C program reporting the
version of the compiler it was made by. It's simply incorrect.
> src/ace/doc % card --version nostromo 17:33
> card 1.3 (GNU a2ps 4.13)
This is definitely wrong. The version number must be the last field on
the line.
> cat - GNU textutils 1.19c
> msgfmt - GNU gettext 0.10.24
> GNU recode 3.4.2
Apparently Gnits is ignoring the GNU standards here.
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