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Re: gnustep-base code freeze


From: Eric Wasylishen
Subject: 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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