Re: Readline-8.1 release available

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/17/21 2:57 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Chet" == Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
>
> Chet> The first public release of the GNU Readline library, version 8.1, is
> Chet> now available for FTP with the URLs
> ...
> Chet> and from the master branch in the readline git repository
> Chet> (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/log)
> Chet> and the usual GNU mirrors.
>
> When I look at the master branch there, I only see 3 commits after the
> "Readline 8.0 patch 1" commit.  But, when I look on the readline-8.1-rc3
> branch, I see many more things.  However, I wasn't sure if the -rc3
> branch had all of the commits that went into 8.1.
>
> It would be nice if readline used git more normally.  Failing that, a
> tag marking the commit that was used for the actual 8.1 release would be
> good.  

The reasons bash and readline use the approach they do are well-known and
have been covered numerous times dating from 2009 or so. I inherited the
git repository and its use of `master' to hold the current release version
and official patches, and just added the `devel' branches to track 
development work.

Here's a representative email message describing the approach, this one
from 2011:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-06/msg00004.html

Thanks for letting me know about the missing tag for the readline-8.1
release in the `master' branch. I just added it.

Chet
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