Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I too fear we'll never be able to drop the old behavior, since there are
> packages out there that haven't had update releases for 5 years or more.
> We shouldn't expect such packages to disappear, so, it would not be
> unreasonable to retain some behavior in common with them. But I
> probably wouldn't fight for that in, say, two years' time.
There are packages that still use autoconf version 1, too, and whose
configure files can't be generated with autoconf version 2, and that
didn't prevent autoconf 2 from being released.
Those of us who have to maintain a large installation of software can just
keep autoconf version 1 installed as autoconf1 and use it when necessary,
and we could do the same with autoconf version 2 until those packages have
been updated or replaced.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
