Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-08-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 21 Jul 2016 22:15, Julien ÉLIE wrote: > I would personally be interested in a release of Autoconf 2.70 with > updated config.sub and config.guess helper scripts. As a matter of > fact, there are recent systems where I cannot configure Autoconf because > of obsolete config.{sub,guess}; I then

Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-22 Thread Gavin Smith
On 20 July 2016 at 22:31, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I'm also interested in seeing a release in the near future. Is there > any way people without commit rights (e.g. me) can help? The obvious answer would be for you to get commit rights. Hopefully you could agree with the Autoconf maintainers what

Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-21 Thread Julien ÉLIE
that have been committed to Autoconf source repository since its latest release. So why not just release Autoconf 2.70 as-is? And then keep uncommitted patches for another future release? I would personally be interested in a release of Autoconf 2.70 with updated config.sub and config.guess h

Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/21/2016 12:25 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > On 21 July 2016 at 00:06, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/20/2016 11:21 AM, Craig Andrews wrote: >>> >>> what's >>> blocking a release? >> >> Lack of free time from someone with commit rights. > > How much time it takes to make a release? For the outs

Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-20 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 21 July 2016 at 00:06, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/20/2016 11:21 AM, Craig Andrews wrote: >> >> what's >> blocking a release? > > Lack of free time from someone with commit rights. How much time it takes to make a release? For the outsider there's not many obviously needed steps that take a lo

Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/20/2016 11:21 AM, Craig Andrews wrote: >> There have been a number commits made to autoconf since 2.69 was >> released on April 24, 2012. FWIW, I'm particularly interested in the >> runstatedir change. >> >> Is it possible to make a 2.70 r

Re: Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/20/2016 11:21 AM, Craig Andrews wrote: > There have been a number commits made to autoconf since 2.69 was > released on April 24, 2012. FWIW, I'm particularly interested in the > runstatedir change. > > Is it possible to make a 2.70 release in the near future? If not, what's > blocking a rel

Release Autoconf 2.70

2016-07-20 Thread Craig Andrews
There have been a number commits made to autoconf since 2.69 was released on April 24, 2012. FWIW, I'm particularly interested in the runstatedir change. Is it possible to make a 2.70 release in the near future? If not, what's blocking a release? Thanks, ~Craig _