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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:20:50PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > >The same goes for autoconf. The latest ntp code for instance needs version
> > >2.52, so we can't just keep on hoping that it will disappear.
> > 
> > My experience with newer autoconf a few months ago is that it is not
> > backwards-compatible, so we'd need to create a way to have multiple
> > autoconf versions installed.
> 
> Well, devel/automake and devel/automake-current is what I was thinking
> about, and this scheme is used for ports like postfix already (although

automake 1.5 is not an in-development snapshot.  It is released software.
(I also oppose the "-devel" port names and wish I had never helped
propogate that)

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