FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:28 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> 
> > In light of this, I have a proposal:
> > 
> > We fix our specs to not use autoconf, and remove the old versions as 
> > stated, but we keep them around, perhaps in another branch in CVS or 
> > simply removed from the F10 tag. Then we just wait for complaints. If 
> > someone comes in and says "I was actively using that" we can just slap 
> > it back in. After one release cycle we can flush the rest.
> > 
> 
> And we do all this work because we have nothing better to do ?
> Whats the gain, again ?

Improved portability of your packages, improved robustness of your
configury and much simpler Makefiles (wrt. automake).

That's the core points the autotools are after and upstreams should be
after - Of cause, these aspects are not of much importance if your
target audience is Linux-only.

Ralf