From: Rafael L. <lab...@ps...> - 2003-11-24 14:42:07
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* João Cardoso <jc...@fe...> [2003-11-24 14:22]: > If you mean that only Debian users can bootstrap.sh && configure, than I > don't agree; It does not mean that. It means that developers need to have the latest versions of Automake and Autoconf installed in order to run bootstrap.sh (to run configure, anyway, you do not anythging special, besides a Bourne shell and sed & friends). > instead, I agree with Alan suggestion for you to work on a branch and merge > to head when the tools are available to everybody. The tools are already available to everybody, developers have just to install them! Alan was mentioning libtool-1.5, which he says is not available to everyone. However, my planned changes are not related to Libtool, and should work with previous versions of this tool. At any rate, I am reluctant to work on a branch for things that do not dramatically break HEAD. I did it in the past, and it was a pain in the neck. -- Rafael |