RE: [avr-libc-dev] Release 1.5.1

[Eric Weddington]

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> Subject: [avr-libc-dev] Release 1.5.1
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> I plan to release the current state of HEAD as version 1.5.1 ASAP.
> The idea behind that is to get more testing for all of our new
> features, in particular for Dmitry's new libm.a code.  Since releases
> are also provided as binary releases (which are independent of the
> underlying operating system), that would give interested users the
> option to `upgrade' their library without having to compile it
> themselves.
> 
> Are there any objections to this?
> 
> Note that I'm planning on fixing some of the reported bugs anyway
> afterwards, with the goal to have that included in an upcoming stable
> release 1.4.7.  There are upcoming releases for both, FreeBSD (version
> 6.3 and 7.0 are getting out there now) as well as WinAVR that we'd
> like to ship with a new library version.
> 

Depending on the state of testing of the new floating point routines in
1.5.1 (i.e. no bugs), then I would be interested in releasing WinAVR with
avr-libc 1.6.0.

Eric Weddington