making new tarballs (was: [ANNOUNCE] fixesproto-4.0 and compositeproto-0.3)

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 18:18, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > When making changes to components in the future, please feel free and
> > encouraged to update the release tarballs when you bump the package
> > revision number in configure.ac.  The process for doing so is:
> >
> > - Make all relevant changes, test locally as usual
> > - 'make distcheck' to generate the releasable tarballs
>
> Is there a preferred set of autotools versions to use when generating
> official release tarballs?   Or is it not a problem if some tarballs
> use autoconf 2.57 and others 2.59?

I admit to not knowing.  I believe only the autoconf version matters, and for 
lack of better guidance 2.59 should probably be preferred since I think we 
have a hack or two for 2.57 that should eventually go away.

I'm happy to be corrected if anyone knows better.

- ajax
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