Simon Josefsson wrote: > If we want to minimize the work for full-source bootstrap people we > increase the cost of people maintaining modern software, and vice versa,
+1 > Consider the > extreme situation where gnulib-tool version A would require coreutils > verison B, and coreutils version B+1 would require gnulib-tool version > A+1, and gnulib-tool version A+2 would require coreutils version B+1 and > so on for really short release version increments. Then a full-source > bootstrap will need to package and keep maintain all those coreutils and > gnulib-tool versions -- or start to patch things to avoid the > dependencies. Right. This way of working was pretty common in the Lisp and Haskell worlds, many years ago. For gnulib-tool, we're relying on Python 3.7, which is already 6 years old; so, we are clearly not doing the extreme thing. Bruno
