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

[xerces8]

Isn't it fun when developers can't use consecutive version numbers ?

As if they were doing it on purpose (hard to believe that a 3rd party is forcing them to do it)

Regards,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net>
To: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
Cc: parted-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:33:47 +0200
Subject: Re: [parted-devel] Parted bootstrap - logic error when comparing version numbers

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Recently I acquired the latest GIT repository for parted (1.8.8.1.115-d53a)
> >> and have discovered a problem with building the program.
> >>
> >> The problem is that an 'automake' version >= 1.10a is required.  I am using
> >> 1.10.1, which I believe would be >= 1.10a.
> 
> No.  1.10.1 is *older* than 1.10a.
> And automake-1.10b was recently released, which I consider to be
> stable enough that I used it to bootstrap the stable release
> of upstream coreutils-7.2.
> 
> > I've pushed a change to require 1.10 only since 1.10a was an alpha
> > version of it.
> 
> It would be better to encourage developers to use a newer version
> of automake, since what is now called 1.10b appears to be quite
> close to what automake-1.11 will be.
> 
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