On 2023-03-30, Zack Weinberg <zack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > Because I don't think anyone else currently active in development has > either the time or the expertise for it. (Just as a data point here, > the oldest version of Perl that I myself have any access to, presently, > is 5.*16*, and I don't know how long that machine will stay that way.) FWIW I still use Autoconf (actually, just autom4te/autotest) on machines with perl 5.8. These installations do have both Digest::SHA and Time::HiRes available, though. Though I am still using Autoconf 2.69 on these systems, as I'm not aware of any Autotest-related problems that would be fixed by upgrading. Happy to give new versions a go though. Cheers, Nick