[parted-devel] Parted bootstrap - logic error when comparing version numbers

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
> Otavio Salvador wrote:
> IMHO, upstream should not be beholden to distribution versions
> of automake when they're stuck at 1.10.1 which is over a year old.
> By that argument, depending on which distro you choose, we'd never
> be able to use newer tools.

We should not be beholden, agreed but please read bellow.

> Besides, there are several desirable features in automake-1.10b
> for which I intend to switch parted:
>
>  silent-rules
>  parallel-tests
>  dist-xz support
>
> and maybe one or two others, not counting all of the bug fixes.

Until we add those, there's no need to bump the _requirement_. As
the name suggest it is the version that is _required_ to build, not a
suggested one.

> If you require to be able to build using some older version of automake,
> you can build from a patched branch or even from a release tarball,
> at which point the version of automake doesn't even matter.
>
> Developers can be expected to be able to install a recent automake,
> even from git, although that would be exceptional.

Sure but I disagree with requiring it for a gratious reason. Once
we start to use the new features I fully agree but until it is done
I think we ought to stay with the last compatible one.

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