FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:50 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > On 05/05/2008 11:48 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> This step is way over due. It also will teach maintainers not run the
> >> autotools while building.
> > 
> > It will also teach maintainers not to use Fedora for doing upstream work.
> 
> I agree.  This proposal seems to be all pain for no gain.
The fact Fedora ships gcc-4.3.0 is all pain for no gain.

Please add versions of gcc of all active GCC-branches, such that people
can continue to use f77 and c++'s backward stuff.

Also consider adding a version of gcc which ships still supports libg++.

Do you sense the insanity?

Ralf