After seeing what has happened with Autoconf, and given the current state of libtool, I recommend that the focus of libtool development be to produce a libtool 1.5 as soon as possible and not spend time producing a libtool 1.4.3.
Time spent on libtool 1.4.3 is time spent doing work which must either be done a second time, or has already been done, for libtool 1.5. If a libtool 1.4.3 is prepared, then the next request will be for a libtool 1.4.4, regardless of whether a libtool 1.5 is released. Releasing a libtool 1.4.3 will encourage the same sort of behavior which has caused so much trouble for Autoconf. It is better to let the 1.4 line die of its own accord than to prop it up and encourage developers not to use 1.5. In my experience, the 1.5 code-base is a solid product on systems supported by 1.4.2, and provided that it is patched and proven to work under MinGW and Darwin then 1.5 should be ready to release. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool