Re: ✘Time for 3.22?

[Fred Wright]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020, Gary E. Miller wrote:

> > Thanks.  A few more days is fine.
>
> Any progress testing git head?

I've only managed to do basic build/check testing so far, though across 
all the platforms I normally test.  The one problem so far is that some 
platforms don't have a sufficiently recent SCons to include the 
CheckProg() function.

I'm not convinced that a configure check for tar is even necessary, since 
in the majority of cases, tar isn't even used, and if one does try to use 
it when it doesn't exist, the error from the OS should be pretty 
self-explanatory.  If it were trying to locate a default tar program under 
multiple possible names, some equivalent of CheckProg() would be needed, 
but I don't see any code trying to do that.

Fred Wright