# HG changeset patch
# User Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
# Date 1327744175 -3600
# Node ID 73e22dd042f1f844d89eb1d9f76a93b5e4668b10
# Parent  7256be967b3aedfdaa29719a8131564e2daf9f4d
doc: clarify README-release

* top/README-release: Clarify: you should make a point to have
the latest stable versions of build tools in your PATH, and the
reference to buildreq is solely for its list of tool names, not
for its minimal-functional version numbers.
Prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas and Gary V. Vaughan.

diff -r 7256be967b3a -r 73e22dd042f1 ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Sat Jan 28 10:16:25 2012 +0100
+++ b/ChangeLog	Sat Jan 28 10:49:35 2012 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 2012-01-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+	doc: clarify README-release
+	* top/README-release: Clarify: you should make a point to have
+	the latest stable versions of build tools in your PATH, and the
+	reference to buildreq is solely for its list of tool names, not
+	for its minimal-functional version numbers.
+	Prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas and Gary V. Vaughan.
+
 	maint.mk: use more readable (yet functionally equivalent) quoting
 	It is common to quote a single quote in a single quoted string like
 	this:  '...'\''...'.  Unless you know the idiom, that looks like
diff -r 7256be967b3a -r 73e22dd042f1 top/README-release
--- a/top/README-release	Sat Jan 28 10:16:25 2012 +0100
+++ b/top/README-release	Sat Jan 28 10:49:35 2012 +0100
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
     git checkout master
     git pull origin master
 
-* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, etc.
+* Ensure that the latest stable versions of autoconf, automake, etc.
   are in your PATH.  See the buildreq list in bootstrap.conf for
-  the complete list.
+  the complete list of tools.
 
 * Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
   This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff