Re: Pushing candidates

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Akim Demaille wrote:

> >>> "JED" == Joel E Denny <address@hidden> writes:

>  > Now that I look over my todo list again, I see it's mostly
>  > administrative stuff that shouldn't affect the user.  But there are
>  > a few other things:
> 
>  > 1. Paul Eggert used to announce that M4 1.4.6 is required, and I
>  > said that in the 2.3b announcement, but the README still says
>  > 1.4.3.  I haven't tried 1.4.3, but we ought to at least be
>  > consistent.
> 
> How about asking Eric Blake what he thinks our requirement should be?

Eric once asked why m4 1.4.5 wouldn't be sufficient because that's all 
autoconf requires.  My feeling was that we should say 1.4.6 because that's 
what we've been saying and there may be some subtle reason that no one 
remembers.  But Eric knows m4 far better than I do.  I'm certainly open to 
further discussion.

By the way, Eric, do you have any more Bison work planned before we 
release 2.4?

>  > 2. The README mentions doc/FAQ, which doesn't exist.
> 
> Done.
> 
>  > 3. It seems odd to me that the Bison manual says:
> 
>  >   This manual is for GNU Bison (version 2.3b.23-86c0e, 14 July
>  >   2008), the GNU parser generator.
> 
>  > 14 July 2008 is the last date the manual was edited, but the above
>  > reads as if it's the Bison release date.  Maybe it's just me.
> 
> Done.

Thanks for doing this.