Am Freitag, 16. November 2007 schrieb Tom Lane:
> [ digs for a moment... ]  According to my notes we are using autoconf
> 2.53 for versions 7.3-8.0 and 2.59 for the later branches.  So 2.13
> is already out of the picture.  It might be that 2.53 to 2.59 to 2.61
> is not all that big a jump in reality, but I've got to say that it
> scares me when I read commit-log entries that report ten thousand lines
> worth of diffs in a 20K-line script ...

Yeah, I think it's a bit insane.  Keeping a few Autoconf versions around isn't 
hard at all.  We have been doing it for years.  (Hint: ./configure; make; 
make install)

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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