I'm moving this thread from python-checkins to -dev, since it's relevant to committers. [Guido] > > As long as it fails cleanly with older versions of autoconf, I'm all > > for using autoconf 2.53 now. [Martin] > Done. At the moment, AC_PREREQ is 2.50, so 2.13 will fail. Even the > changes between 2.52 and 2.53 in the generated configure are huge, so > 2.53 should be the "official" version. > > This could be done in two ways: > - allow people to continue to use, say, 2.52, and just ask that 2.53 > is used when committing; or > - bump AC_PREREQ to 2.53; 2.52 (and earlier) will then refuse to work. > It's your choice. Might as well require 2.53. Installing autoconf isn't exactly hard. > The other issue is caching: autoconf 2.50 will, by default, not > generate a config.cache, since that has caused too many problems. > Again, two options: > - leave it as-is, and suggest that people who want caching use the -C > option of configure (new in 2.5x), or > - hack configure to create a cache file by default (I'm not sure how > to do this) Leave it as it is unless there are many complaints. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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