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Re: gnustep-base code freeze
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Eric Wasylishen |
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Re: gnustep-base code freeze |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:44:07 -0600 |
Hi,
As Fred reminded me, the code freeze also applies to -gui and -back.
Cheers,
Eric
On 2011-03-28, at 11:24 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>> Can we please spend the next few days testing base but not making any
>> changes other than documentation and any fixes for serious bugs (and perhaps
>> the one number formatter bug reported by the testsuite).
>> I'd really like a new base release this month, and there's not much of it
>> left.
>>
>
> Sorry that I was a b it too busy, I dusted out some of my stranger platforms
> and am testing/building on them. From old SPARC to modern x86/64 :)
>> One thing I'd quite like to do, but am not entirely sure about ...
>>
>> Can we take the current svn trunk code and copy it back to the stable branch
>> (with versioning revisions) so that we can make a 'stable' release which
>> contains all the new/recent functionality and the support for the latest
>> compilers and runtimes? This would have to be binary compatible with the
>> existing stable base library (I've been trying not to introduce any
>> incompatibilities, but can other people check this).
>>
>> The reason I'd like to do this is that having a new release of both the
>> stable and development branches might get the new features out to people via
>> different distributions more quickly. Is this a good idea?
>>
>>
> Yes, it sounds so, especially gcc 4.6 support could be interesting as some
> other bug fixes that were added.
>
> Riccardo
>
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