[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r85486 - python/branches/py3k/configure (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Oct 14 21:05:42 CEST 2010

2010/10/14 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

I think it was intentional (at least deliberate), but I think it is a problem and should be reverted. There is, at any point, the official version that Python uses for autoconf, which at the moment is 2.65. The rationale is that with changing autoconf versions, the actual configure script will change forth and back, confusing attributions (svn blame).

Why would anyone annotate configure? configure.in is stable wrt to autoconf versions. Ok, it's more an issue with aesthetics, and also reproducibility (what if somebody tests a configure change correctly, but it then breaks with an older autoconf version?) However, if people don't see this as a problem, we can also give up the strictness of requiring an exact autoconf version (and autoconf will already check for a minimum).

I don't see it as any more of a problem than upgrading against other dependencies (like gcc?).

-- Regards, Benjamin

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