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Re: Tom Tromey PING!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Akim Demaille" <akim@epita.fr>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: <automake@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: Tom Tromey PING!
> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
writes:
>
>
> >> Robert, what would be wrong with the head branch as is now? Why
> >> would you want 1.5? Is it related to the Autoconf requirements?
>
> Robert> Well, head is for development AFAIK, so I cannot simply
> Robert> publish on the squid web pages tht developers need
> Robert> automake-head. And getting folk to grab a CVS snapshot just to
> Robert> develop squid is a little unreasonable (think interference
> Robert> with package management on debian/redhat, ports tree on *BSD
> Robert> etc). But pointing at the most recent release is ok!.
>
> Miscommunication. I really meant HEAD *if released*. So I'm asking
> it again: would the current CVS Automake be a viable release for you?
>
To the best of my knowledge, yes. The caveat is that I have not kept up
to date with CVS HEAD myself :}.
I will do a test run this coming weekend with automake HEAD to confirm
this. (Although, if you are unaware of any new bugs, then it's probably
OK regardless.)
Rob