Re: Release schedule for 3.4.1

[Rik]

On 05/14/2011 06:11 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> On 12-May-2011, Rik wrote:
> 
> | I think we could do a point release at any time.  The new stable/default
> | methodology should make this easier.  However, isn't binary compatibility
> | broken between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1?  If memory serves, jwe discovered something
> | in the way configure.ac was set up that was embedding library versions.  It
> | is now fixed so that 3.4.1 will be compatible with 3.4.2, but we should
> | make a prominent note about it.  Also, PCRE was not required for the 3.4.0
> | branch, but *is* a requirement for 3.4.1 because of the way merges were
> | done and the abandonment of the 3-4-x branch.  Again, a prominent note
> | would help about the new requirements.
> | 
> | The only issue report I would like to see resolved is one with
> | configuration and where to place library files
> | (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32840).  Currently we are putting certain
> | libraries in libexcdir rather than libdir which is contrary to the GNU
> | coding standard
> | 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Installation-Directory-Variables).
> |  I know jwe had some concerns about parts of the patch supplied in the bug
> | report, so I would urge just doing the minimal change and putting the
> | libraries in libdir and not doing the rest of the naming changes.
> 
> Yes, we need to fix the library versioning problem and note the
> incompatibilities before the release.  Fixing the installation
> directory problem also seems like a good idea, but I'll have to look
> at the bug report again.
> 
> To make sure that we remember these items, I enabled the task tracker
> on savannah and added the three items above to it.  I also created an
> address@hidden mailing list to use for notifications,
> same as we have for the bug and patch trackers.

John,

I dealt with two of the items that were on the task list.  This still
leaves the original three that you had added.

--Rik