Ah,
I was hoping that they would be included in the updates for the
developer tools not the OS itself. Since Apple is just bundling the
tools instead of developing them-even more so.
The default install in Tiger that I have for automake (for example)
is 1.6.3 which was released in mid-2002. There have been steady
updates in the autotoolchain (save autoconf) since then. Current
stable release is 1.9something. Since there have been OS releases
since 2002, I don't think it has been updated.
Thanks for the reply,
Mike
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On May 5, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Michael Tegtmeyer wrote:
Hello,
Is there any news on when Apple will be updating the included
autotools to a more recent version?
One obvious and fairly safe answer is "in the next release", but
it's not clear to me that this is what you're asking. Software
Updates are generally only done to fix critical problems or
address potential/actual security issues. I don't think there's
anything in the auto* tools which qualify them for software update.
Is there any reason why the autotool updates are coming so slow?
I do believe we've updated them with almost every major release of
the OS. See above as to why we don't update them in SUs.
- Jordan
