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Re: Current versions of automake and autoconf
- From: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
- To: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>
- Cc: autoconf at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:05:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: Current versions of automake and autoconf
- References: <3FBE6019.1050905@kaffe.org><2003-11-22-19-43-21+28438+duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>
> (Answering only for Automake, because I've also been confused by
> Akim's last statements about announcements that shouldn't be
> considered official.)
Sorry about this. I was trying to make a difference bw pre-released
on my web site, and really released on GNU site. Maybe that was wrong
:(
It turns out that a beta, even if you emphasize the need to test it,
is not tested as thoroughly as a real release. So I was finally quite
happy with having a (pre-)release spread in our community first, then
have some real feedback before making the real release. This caught a
couple of weak releases by the past, but I realize that this releasing
scheme is a bit obscure. Unfortunately it relied on this obscurity:
it is important, if you want some real feedback, that many people use
it as a real release. So if I flag it as a pre-release, I doubt it
will be tested as thoroughly :(
In the future I'll try to be clearer.
And I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the feedback on Autoconf :)