On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: > IMHO, upstream should not be beholden to distribution versions > of automake when they're stuck at 1.10.1 which is over a year old. > By that argument, depending on which distro you choose, we'd never > be able to use newer tools.
We should not be beholden, agreed but please read bellow. > Besides, there are several desirable features in automake-1.10b > for which I intend to switch parted: > > silent-rules > parallel-tests > dist-xz support > > and maybe one or two others, not counting all of the bug fixes. Until we add those, there's no need to bump the _requirement_. As the name suggest it is the version that is _required_ to build, not a suggested one. > If you require to be able to build using some older version of automake, > you can build from a patched branch or even from a release tarball, > at which point the version of automake doesn't even matter. > > Developers can be expected to be able to install a recent automake, > even from git, although that would be exceptional. Sure but I disagree with requiring it for a gratious reason. Once we start to use the new features I fully agree but until it is done I think we ought to stay with the last compatible one. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
