(Sorry, my mail client insisted on auto-completing automake@ as bug-automake@...)
-- With Valediction, Kamila Szewczyk (https://iczelia.net) On 8/14/26 10:27 AM, Kamila Szewczyk wrote: > We are pleased to announce that we are now moving towards the next > release. We intend for it to contain primarily bug fixes and various > documentation adjustments. Nonetheless, a new feature will be > introduced per Bug #81040: > > - New autoconf macro AM_OPTIONAL_AUTOMAKE. It takes a list of > `dist-XXX' option names (dist-bzip2, dist-bzip3, dist-xz, > dist-lzip, dist-zstd, dist-zip, dist-shar, dist-tarZ); > `make dist' builds each archive when its tool is available and skips > it otherwise, without making `make dist' fail. This is for > systems that intentionally lack some compression tools. > > We intend to keep it invariant that invoking AM_OPTIONAL_AUTOMAKE in an > autotools project does not break builds due to missing software, unmet > criteria and other foreseeable issues. Moreover, the long-standing Bug > #19614 was fixed: > > tar was piped into the compressor, and a pipeline reports only its > last exit status, so a failing tar left a truncated archive behind > and `make dist' still exited 0. `pipefail' is not portable, so tar > now writes $(distdir).tar and each dist-* target compresses that. > One tar run per `make dist' instead of one per format, at the price > of room for the uncompressed tarball. > > As this is my first release in this capacity, I should further take the > opportunity to introduce myself as a new maintainer of Automake. I am a > research assistant and university instructor, working primarily in > molecular genomics and data compression. At present, I am fortunate to > have spare capacity which I intend to devote to Automake, in particular > primarily to reviewing and merging patches, responding to bug reports, > and working through the existing backlog. > > We invite further suggestions for defects that should be prioritised for > resolution before the upcoming release. > > -- > With Valediction, > Kamila Szewczyk (https://iczelia.net)
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