Hi, On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 06:53:59PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:33 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote: > > Or if autotools maintainers would stop changing the interface so > > freaking often, this wouldn't be a problem either.... > Apparently you don't have much clues about the autotools. > > They did not change the "interface so often". > > There has been one big interface change: It occurred between > autoconf-2.13 and autoconf-2.50 - Many years ago. well, there was also the change in Automake 1.4 -> 1.5, which happened after that, and then the "stabilization period" for "new" automake until, say, 1.8. So it is about 7 years ago since the last interface change and we can say that Autotools are really stable and mature for at least 4 years. What _is_ the problem, is that many projects use an undocumented internals, instead of requesting an enhancement. And _that_ kind of hacks break very easily with a new release. Stepan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
