Re: sed: suggestions for sed release-management

[Michael Prokop]

* Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> [20090223 09:35]:

> Regarding the website, I'll do some (minor) improvements.

Great, thanks.

> > 4) The manpage should mention the symlink problem regarding '-i'.

> First, it is not a problem, it's a feature. Second, the manpage is
> directly generated from the --help output (plus the description of the
> commands).  It correctly points out that the main source of
> documentation is info.

Ok.

> > 5) Releases. The last stable release is sed-4.1.5 from 2006-02-03.
> > That's more than 3 years ago. Please consider providing new stable
> > releases more regularly. If you think it's not "stable as in stable"
> > yet these days, than providing release candidates might be an option.

> sed is very close to the next release, which will touch more or less
> every point that you mention.  I fixed a couple of known bugs in
> January, and will probably start asking for wide testing in 2-3 weeks.
> 4.2 will be considered mature.  After it stabilizes, I don't plan to
> make any additional minor release (only bugfixes) and the git repository
> will always be stable.

Thanks.

regards,
-mika-

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