[Python-Dev] Time for 2.3.3?

[Michael Hudson]

Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> writes:

>>>> Michael Hudson wrote
>> We should give the new autoconf a go, at least.
>
> I would strongly prefer to do this sooner than later, so I was thinking
> of doing the upgrade sometime this week. Does anyone have/know any 
> reasons to not upgrade to the newer autoconf?

Well, there was an almost instananeous brown-paper-bag 2.59 release,
but I don't know of any problems with 2.59.  Not sure I would if there
were, mind.

> It should fix a bunch of build annoyances (and I can get rid of
> aclocal.m4)

That's the motivation :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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