Re: gnustep-base code freeze

[Riccardo Mottola]

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