On 2020-12-20 13:37 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/20/20 12:25 PM, Wookey wrote:
> > We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design
> > only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often.
>
> Yes, the design assumes that Autoconf etc. are maintained well,
On 12/20/20 12:25 PM, Wookey wrote:
We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design
only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often.
Yes, the design assumes that Autoconf etc. are maintained well, which
(except for Zack's efforts) has not been the case for
On 2020-12-20 17:46 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> This patch is already in Gnulib since 2020-12-09. But when people
> run 'autoreconf' on an existing released tarball, they are effectively
> combining an older Gnulib with a newest Autoconf.
>
> Why do people do that? The point of tarballs is that
