Re: [Tinycc-devel] Confirmed working on 'mob', should I be using it?

[avih]

  On Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:02:35 AM GMT+2, DFP <dfp@disroot.org> 
wrote:

> ... Would you recommend using the mob branch version of the
> compiler to get the fix? Especially seeing the last 'big' release
> was seven years ago.


Yes. The mob branch is generally reasonably stable, which holds also
for this point in time. It's also currently in a "release candidate"
state towards 0.9.28, so people try to avoid pushing big changes.

That being said, there's no release date planned, and while many
expressed an opinion over at least the past year that it would be
great to have a new release, it's up to the maintainer (grischka) to
decide when. Could be tomorrow, could be in two years.

But do keep in mind that it's a mob branch, so anyone can push
changes, including malicious ones. I don't recall it ever happened,
at least not in the past 10 years or so, but it can happen.

Similarly, sometimes people push non-malicious changes which still
happen to break things.

However, bad commits, malicious or not, are usually handled quickly
(typically/hopefully in a matter of days or even hours).

So if you're not sure, usually a week or more without any commit
means that no one noticed anything alarming, or else someone would
have done something about it during that time.

Currently the last commit in mob is over a month old (2025-01-06),
and there are no known outstanding issues as far as I know.

avih