From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.134]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40CDC385AC09 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2021 13:32:58 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 40CDC385AC09 Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue010 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1Mgvev-1mN1pF3Dxt-00hKsG for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:32:56 +0100 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 24C79A8093E; Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:32:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:32:56 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: autoconf Message-ID: Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <87mtlk6qvq.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <2262e475-e281-bfc9-b00c-c471b8ad58cb@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <87wnkncvxf.fsf@Otto.invalid> <87sfvbcfgg.fsf@Otto.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sfvbcfgg.fsf@Otto.invalid> X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:ycGmlYa5t6ykPI1UClyvtwn3Y6tnHsJCuSxbThqFUirkSKmQzYj DT4AXt/H6Gx55jpuDuTtZvYHC3D9fQ165T7e1Te7Z8cJn7yHT8P14+oRZ0JAA4J1xDdWmtG otn7iDlG1r0mWfl1urZkZHYPb+/jtUMNU2CTEzQb6rfeQZI2tjDff2IMVDhX58xmYiXwiKg yIRfBe+MKac/bEz+4nYUg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:uJextdafhUg=:GRU2j8TxESks/GZzU3xupV X2KlPAPQLTvQYL234lRepWvZGWTVAOyNgG+Dw3Etn3pXoIpGkomlicAgXFmVzdxwFWlEDum8M aC/Zwx2+nagRIo8KOKcHek/ugS2odnYTNSdqDIl/7qKGqaMWleKsimjafzuwyqbm6bGsFZDFn aloYbowpG7epVqYbh5Dz6tSAXCOWsTdRkKJZgaTtdJqk+SO23pZQ1SMKQ+LNV9JGEjYvt1jg/ Q3ibKfjxm9wvQbx5P+mjWRVa7LnE7D0nZhLnWREpo0nioFlM1gAMubvGLxY9MNgVKu/0ttQMM yJSvj9sYFrbyoCF1OjS0Lm4ojvpkiHshRH6cnDqnjuZsuGdXbjCbLn81+PPKZ5LGuY+jyCJjd CBdyQIRLvSMhVfS2xsHPK48DU5ux1Br2pU9faNJNyEhwu3O9qzzsHs5SSr4sZzpcbSxrUw6y1 uYr6J4sgynVHv6teuP8miA1SY6fZDicXYQgwjzpyQCV3J91UDkJz+yYfGwjrEpeCtv8+5K5My WqZmLZ9fe7ovXYRm7E01XDm0aMsxaKzibmbut9TJskgtrGzH4fLSwubVsZUSRmWMkMKysU9SM JtuaCU77zjO1qU9nbNNYTlEh7miaPjfwaW4qrSy5f5aFa9s8Dv72dnmffv1Wjk/zJqUtN/UnX Y1xdCktNZwg1V8zNK71UIX7pMI7ROCdBkW8/xmAZn/ZnTRN4h44khADL2Y8r97iNg/BgjnVjY HwR+ep2RhU+yjgvd X-Spam-Status: No, score=-99.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN, KAM_DMARC_NONE, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_SHORT, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NEUTRAL, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin package maintainer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:33:00 -0000 On Dec 2 14:18, ASSI wrote: > Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps writes: > > My 2c : Cygwin should - at least - allow people to install autoconf-2.71 > > and - as long as the packages are prepared for it - things shouldn't break. > > As I said, I haven't looked at it in any detail, but it seems that > autoconf is already multi-version, so I guess it would be possible to > introduce an autoconf2.7 package in addition to the existing two. > That's a slightly wonky way to do that when we expect to later on just > replace 2.69 with 2.71, though. Don't do that. https://lwn.net/Articles/839395/ autoconf 2.70 and later are new, backward incompatible versions, so they should go into a new-and-shiny-and-not-yet-existing autoconf2.7 package. Corinna