Re: 2.96.6 release (small update)

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:12:35AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > dvipng's author complained about debug being off by default whereas his
> > setting is "on" by default.
> 
> Strange.  IMHO, that's for the packager or distribution to decide and
> worry about, not for the upstream author.

My wording was not accurate. It was more like a comment rather than
a complaint. Anyway, I do agree to add the debug option.

> I would much rather have upstream worry about configure and compile
> and portability issues: include a configure check for libgen.h and my
> prototype patch,

Jan-Åke? Do you listen? Did you look at Jan's patch?

> and upgraded to autoconf2.50.

That autoconf-2.13 is what I currently need inside texk (for things
like sinclude), so the old version is the fault of the old setup we (me,
Olaf Weber, ...) currently use. This will improve sometime (maybe in a
year from now).

Actually, the original dvipng distribution uses autoconf 2.59.

Thomas