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LCA: Disintermediating distributionsLCA: Disintermediating distributionsPosted Feb 7, 2008 9:24 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: LCA: Disintermediating distributions by vapier Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions
> anyone doing serious work does not care about older versions of autotools You ever try to compile an older package with a newer version of autotools? Failure city. There's a reason Debian is forced to include so many version of autotools.... and, I assure you, they are doing serious work.
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LCA: Disintermediating distributions Posted Feb 7, 2008 17:32 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link] You are talking about different things. Anyone actively developing a program is going to want to use a recent version of autotools. The older versions in Debian are only there to build programs that have not been seriously updated in several years.This is no different from the reason why Debian ships multiple versions of Python, or gcc, or many other development tools.
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