Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Oct 29 10:25:58 EST 2003


On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Matter wrote:
> > 1.7 and autoconf 2.57. Older RedHat releases like 7.2, 7.3 are using
> > automake 1.4 and autoconf 2.13. cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA and
>
> They won't be capable of processing the auto* stuff, then. autotools have
> almost NO backward compatibility in practice, no matter what they would like
> to say otherwise.

I find it mildly amusing that after 2-3 years of complaining about us
using the older autotools, we now get complaints about using the newer
ones ;)

But yes, the "backwards compatibiluity" in the autotools packages is
terrible.

-Rob

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