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Re: Release next week?
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Lars J. Aas |
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Re: Release next week? |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:36:22 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:58:37AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: Let's flush all the documentation related patches, Lars' cleanups, and
: target an actual release next week.
There are no showstoppers left?
: I think 2.51 will probably be released soon afterwards. Nonetheless,
: I would like to introduce deep internal changes: introduce autom4te.
: I'd like autom4te to be written in Perl, i.e., starting from 2.51,
: Autoconf will require Perl, and the same Perl as Automake. I don't
: think this is a hard requirement today as anyway I don't think there
: are many Autoconf-non-Automake projects today.
:
: How does this sound?
I'm not too happy about Perl, nor am I in favour of Python. I don't mind
the slowness of autoconf that much either - it's more important to me to
get the configure/build scripts to run faster and better. If we could
switch the configure-script interpreter to something significantly faster
with more built-in functionality...
Anyways, is "deep internal changes" really something for a +.1 version
increment? It sounds like a 3.0 rewrite to me - which we could of course
fork off, but I think there's still a lot of living left to do for 2.*
before its time is up :)
Lars J
--
Innovation is one percent inspiration and ninetynine percent perspiration,
and in my case; twice that... -- Norville Barnes, `The Hudsucker Proxy'
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, (continued)
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/11
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/04/11
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/12
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/04/20
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/23
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/04/26
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Guido Draheim, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
Re: Release next week?,
Lars J. Aas <=
Re: Release next week?, Ralf Corsepius, 2001/04/10
Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10