On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:30 AM Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Waldek, > > > Those dates are meanigless, just old cruft remaing in the files. > > Should I remove them? > > What is your rationale for sticking with config.guess and config.sub as > we have it now? > > Doesn't it make sense to outsource the maintenance of those files? I > don't see it as our responsibility that apart from the FriCAS code > itself we should maintain generic build support. Take it use it and let > the bugs be handled by upstream. That would make sense in my eyes even > if the updates happen only every 2 or 3 years. It would be simply some > stuff less that we need to care about. The world is moving on and FriCAS > does not have so much manpower.
Indeed, these files are basically needed for normal functioning of up to date autoconf. Why would one want to vendor them, is beyond me. > > Ralf > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/2b110910-2c58-df2f-f7f4-4bdc31ff4d84%40hemmecke.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAAWYfq3wwmN45dys5xLo64rLTyD6CZWpS7eZT0HpOMCyOGTnrg%40mail.gmail.com.
