Re: Autoconf 2.50b is now required for GNOME 2 (resent)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> [Ooops, accidentally had a wrong References: header in this mail,
>  so sending it again.]
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> since nobody really objected to this and a few people even told
> me to commit my autoconf patches, we now require autoconf 2.50b
> everywhere for GNOME 2.
> 
> You can get this autoconf from either alpha.gnu.org or from
> ftp://master.gnome.org/people/martin/vicious-bootstraps/.

I never saw a response from you about the possibility of supporting
both this and the normal autoconf. Did I just miss it?

Also, requiring something from alpha.gnome.org strikes me as a bad
idea. I'd be very, very, very hesitant to accept patches for Glib/GTK+
that did this.

Regards,
                                        Owen