Re: Autoconf 2.70 release status update as of 2020-11-02

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 11/2/20 5:23 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> It’s been five weeks since the release of autoconf 2.69c.  Many bugs
> have been fixed, and I had hoped to be able to put out the final
> release of 2.70 this week, but there are still some important bugs
> that need to be fixed before we can do that.
>
> (Testing is still very welcome, but I recommend you work from autoconf
> git trunk - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/autoconf.git - rather than
> continuing to use 2.69c.  I can make another beta release if that would
> be helpful.)

Yes please! A release makes it a lot easier to know which failures need 
to be re-tested. When testers are working from git HEAD, we have to 
start asking them all which day they ran "git pull" on...