On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:05:23 -0400 Trent Nelson <tr...@snakebite.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:43:37AM -0700, Charles-François Natali wrote: > > > My understanding is that we use a specific version of autoconf. > > > The reason is that otherwise we end up with useless churn in the repo > > > as the generated file changes when different committers use different > > > versions. In the past we have had issues with a new autoconf version > > > actually breaking the Python build, so we also need to test a new version > > > before switching to it. > > > > Well, so I guess all committers will have to use the same > > Linux/FreeBSD/whatever distribution then? > > AFAICT there's no requirement regarding the mercurial version used by > > committers either. > > Autoconf is a special case though. Different versions of autoconf > produce wildly different outputs for 'configure', making it impossible > to vet configure.ac changes by reviewing the configure diff.
Isn't it enough to review the configure.ac diff? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
