[Python-Dev] Bumping autoconf from 2.68 to 2.69

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 10:59 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> wrote:
> > Well, so I guess all committers will have to use the same
> > Linux/FreeBSD/whatever distribution then?
> > AFAICT there's no requirement regarding the mercurial version used by
> > committers either.
> 
> It should be sufficient to install autoconf-x.y into /home/user/bin or
> something similar. Installing autoconf from source really takes about
> 3 minutes.
FWIW this was also documented in the devguide, as of:
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/5432be4d4e1a

though that description was then removed in:
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/27be97280cff