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charset="us-ascii" Received-SPF: none client-ip=85.215.255.21; envelope-from=bruno@clisp.org; helo=mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+normalperson=yhbt.net@gnu.org Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+normalperson=yhbt.net@gnu.org Simon Josefsson wrote: > If we want to minimize the work for full-source bootstrap people we > increase the cost of people maintaining modern software, and vice versa, +1 > Consider the > extreme situation where gnulib-tool version A would require coreutils > verison B, and coreutils version B+1 would require gnulib-tool version > A+1, and gnulib-tool version A+2 would require coreutils version B+1 and > so on for really short release version increments. Then a full-source > bootstrap will need to package and keep maintain all those coreutils and > gnulib-tool versions -- or start to patch things to avoid the > dependencies. Right. This way of working was pretty common in the Lisp and Haskell worlds, many years ago. For gnulib-tool, we're relying on Python 3.7, which is already 6 years old; so, we are clearly not doing the extreme thing. Bruno