Hey, I've utilized autotools sugestion. Your question is answered in second volume of ECL Quarterly: https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/quarterly/volume2.html#orgheadline8 Regards, Daniel Jerry James writes:

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Daniel Kochmański <daniel@turtleware.eu> wrote:

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Dear all,

since nothing serious came up, we are publishing a new release.

Announcment: https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/files/ecl-16.0.0-announcement.html

Source distribution: https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/files/ecl-16.0.0.tgz

Windows binary installer: https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/files/ecl-16.0.0-msvc-win32-installer.ex...

Thanks for the new release. I just noticed that you've apparently abandoned the old YY.MM.DD naming scheme for release numbers. Maybe that happened last release, too, and I wasn't paying attention. So what do the version numbers mean now?

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