Hi Dave, thanks for the review. On 06/23/2012 11:46 AM, Dave Hart wrote: > > [SNIP] > First of all, I've fixed all the nits you have pointed out, along your suggestions. Thanks.
> > Which released version numbers of Automake had the just-fixed Zsh > compatibility bug? > Automake 1.12. > I am trying to get a feel for how many people > might have been exposed to justify the sentiment that support for > older versions of Zsh is unwarranted. > There is another issue to consider here: several older versions of Zsh in the 4.x series had a bug in handling of stderr redirection when "set -x" was in effect, and this bug has been known to cause some spurious errors in the Automake testsuite since at least Automake 1.11: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2009-08/msg00020.html> No real user, maintainer or developer ever reported that bug, which probably means that nobody is actually using Zsh to run the testsuite. > Automake improvements can take > some time to reach end users, as many maintainers of packages using it > do not aggressively upgrade the latest release of Automake, but rather > stick with whatever version they're using until a compelling > improvement prompts an upgrade. > Regards, Stefano
