Re: preparing for 1.5.24

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Peter, Tim, all,
>
> * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:20:24PM CET:
> > On Feb 11, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > Should we rather do a real prerelease, so it's archived on
> > > alpha.gnu.org,[...]
> >
> > This is good news, and great work. I'm pretty sure finch can handle
> > the load and bandwidth, so I think it is up to you, but I would not
> > bother with a formal alpha.
>
> I've looked at the snapshot.  It uses Automake 1.9.6 and Autoconf
> 2.60.  Since I'd rather use 1.10 and 2.61 for 1.5.24, I preferred a
> formal alpha.  I've now adjusted the URL for the branch-1-5 snapshot
> to contain the string 1.5.23c in the name.  I assume the switch will
> happen automatically with the next build?

Looks like I was on the ball the day I wrote that script, yeah, it  
handles the version change without modification.

Peter