On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 4:22 PM bill-auger <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:38:03 -0700 carl wrote: > > What's the deal? autoconf up to date is 2.69, why should I have to > > reinstall old versions? > > one good reason would be because that is the version that will allow > this program to compile properly
Well then, icecat should be changed to work with later autoconf. Autoconf is a tool to make other software better/faster/more correct. If autoconf has been improved , why shouldn't icecat development get the benefits of those improvements, by adjust icecat to work with it. Also , then developers can just use latest version of autoconf (likewise rest of toolchain) and thus always have the benefits of the latest improvements. > > that is the very reason why software releases are versioned - if only > the newest version of every software was useful, then there would not > need to be any versions - we would all just rock whatevr is the current > HEAD today of the git master of each tool and dependency like our golang > and javascript friends do, cross our fingers, and hope for the best :) > We still have to hope for the best. > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
