Re: [fetchmail-devel] automake migration

[R.O. B. <com...@bl...>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:35:28 -0400,
Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> wrote:

> R.O. Blättner wrote:
> > I'm used to NOT reinstall every new distribution release on my boxes.
> >
> > And I usually grapped every new fetchmail tarball from ESR and could

Sorry, typo: I wanted to type "grabbed" ...

> > compile it like a charme although I've somtimes not the cutting edge
> > of generation software installed.
> 
> You'll still be able to compile the released tarball just fine; you don't 
> need that list of tools to do that.  Autoconf and the rest are necessary 
> for going from what's in the code repository to what you see in the 
> release tarball.  But after that, none of that stuff is necessary.

Sounds good  :-)

> In other words, if you only work from releases, nothing will change for 
> you.  But now we have the ability to get involved in the process before 
> release, and that's where autoconf et al come in.

Fine !

Did I get it right that this is opposed to ESR's tarballs where
always some auto* stuff was running while doing "make config" ?

Hi, Rob, many THX for Your quick and enlightening response !

So I may continue to test (nearly) every release
as I've done in the past ...   :-)

When time permits I may contribute some fixes too in the future.

Bye,

Rolf
-- 
Dipl.phys. Rudolf Otto Blättner,
D 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany.