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Re: Updated: libtool-devel-1.5, libltdl3-1


Max Bowsher wrote:
Ongoing development has stabilized the devel version, but there is still
call for 2 sets of autotools. Now "devel" = "current" and "stable" =
"legacy", legacy being for those projects still using ac-2.13.

However, renaming the Cygwin autotool packages is probably more effort than
it is worth.

What he said.


The devel branch of libtool on cygwin will now be numbered using a 1.5.x-y numbering scheme, where 1.5.x is the official libtool release upon which our cygwin version is based. The -y represents the cygwin release version, and may also indicate that additional patches were applied. These patches may be "original" (e.g. from me), or they may be pulled from libtool's CVS as necessary.

We lose specific "CVS date" information, but now that we FINALLY have a usable official release for cygwin -- after 2.5 years of waiting -- I want to stick as closely as possible to official source, and not use extra patches or CVS stuff. As much as possible.

So, to refect this, I've shifted the numbering scheme for libtool-devel from "CVS checkout date" to 1.5.x.

But, we still need a "stable" (or legacy) branch for the autotools, and a "devel" (or current) branch. And this will be true for a long time -- until most packages that USE libtool have officially updated to use the current versions (libtool-1.5.x, AM-1.7.x, AC-2.5x). At some point in the distant future, we may want to move what we currently call "-devel" into the "-stable" tree, and adopt ??? libtool-2.0, AM-2.0, AC-3.0 ??? as the -devel tree.

Or maybe not. Maybe -- at that distant time -- the tools will have progressed to the point that you can have multiple installed versions without these stupid scripts and "switching" frameworks. Who knows?

But I don't see ANY of that happening for at least two years.

--Chuck



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