Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 09:45:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> > It was mentioned elsewhere in passing that a new Autoconf release might >> > be coming. That one will warn about the old naming "configure.in" and >> > request "configure.ac". So we might want to rename that sometime. >> > Before we get into the specifics, I suggest that all interested parties >> > check whether buildfarm scripts, packaging scripts, etc. need to be >> > adjusted for the newer name. >> >> Along the same line, I read at [1] >> >> Because it has been such a long time, and because some of the changes >> potentially break existing Autoconf scripts, we are conducting a >> public beta test before the final release of version 2.70. Please >> test this beta with your autoconf scripts, and report any problems you >> find to the Savannah bug tracker: >> >> Maybe we should do some pro-active testing, rather than just waiting for >> 2.70 to get dropped on us? God knows how long it will be until 2.71. > > Sounds good. A cheap option would be to regenerate with 2.70, push that on a > Friday night to see what the buildfarm thinks, and revert it on Sunday night.
Instead of doing this on the master branch, would it be worth defining a namespace for branches that the buildfarm tests in addition to master and REL_*_STABLE? In the Perl world we have this in the form of smoke-me/* branches, and it's invaluable to be able to test things across many platforms without breaking blead (our name for the main development branch). - ilmari -- - Twitter seems more influential [than blogs] in the 'gets reported in the mainstream press' sense at least. - Matt McLeod - That'd be because the content of a tweet is easier to condense down to a mainstream media article. - Calle Dybedahl
