FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > How comes you expect each and every tool in Fedora but the autotools to
> > be "current".
> 
> That's it!
> 
> OK, by Fedora 10 we need to start removing all sorts of not 'current'
> things that aren't up to modern standards.
> 
> First, toolkits! 
> 
> We need to remove gtk1, qt3, and for pete's sake, Xaw and Xaw3d. All
> are obsolete, and users and developers are best served by upgrading
> to more recent toolkits such as Qt4 and GTK2.
> 
> The following 258 packages need ported by Fedora 10, or they will
> be removed:

+1

> Next step, languages. (That can follow in a different mail.)
> After all, who needs old stuff like tcl, fortran, or Ada when we have
> python, ruby, and C?

+1

Sadly, you're joking.

But I would love to get rid of the libraries you mentioned before.

-sv