autoconf - upgrade to 2.6.*?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:46:41PM -0800, Ade Lovett wrote:
> 
> On Nov 21, 2006, at 13:52 , Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Given the usual (and largely unavoidable) difficulties of auto*
> > updates we'll of course want to test it on pointyhat first.
> 
> Actually, this one isn't so bad, since it's simply a repocopy of  
> devel/autoconf259 to devel/autoconf26, and then adding the necessary  
> magic incantations elsewhere.  The other autoconf* ports will remain  
> unaffected.

OK, that sounds pretty painless then.

> What *will* require a pointyhat run is the pending destruction of  
> autoconf253, migrating to autoconf259.
> 
> The the fun *really* begins with the fledgling devel/autoconf-wrapper  
> and devel/automake-wrapper ports ;)
> 
> But you probably don't want to know about that right now :)

Correct, sir!

Kris