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Re: autoconf 1.x for vms maintainership request
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- Cc: ttn at glug dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:09:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: autoconf 1.x for vms maintainership request
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0404270929360.11901-100000@scooby.simplesystems.org>
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>
> > i posted the following to the autoconf list:
> >
> > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00131.html
> >
> > but perusing the archive shows that list is mostly full of (other)
> > junk, hence this post, in case autoconf maintainers have decided
> > to avoid that list.
>
> Autoconf 1.12 is an anchient legacy version dating from eight years
> ago. The current Autoconf is 2.59. If no one responded, it was
> probably because your request was similar to proposing a design change
> to the Model T Ford.
Actually, if there were any autoconf maintainers, one would naturally
expect them to respond (that is, other than being pointedly rude).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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