Re: New release wishlist

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Monday 18 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:07:14PM CEST:
> > JFTR, here are the things that IMHO we must do for the next release:
> 
> Right now, I'm aiming at 1.11.2, not 1.12.
>
Ah, I didn't get that.  Consider my seggestions moot for what
concerns 1.11.2.

> The minimum for the former is *no* additional features.
> The important thing is no regressions, not
> really any new feature.  I might be talked into reviewing ACLOCAL_PATH
> support for that, and maybe a couple of the other issues that fix bugs
> are safe enough (esp. we could think about deprecating ansi2knr), but
> other than that I'd be rather cautious.  I want 1.11.2 to be pluggable
> for everyone that uses 1.11.1, without *any* thinking (i.e., distros
> should be able to just drop it in).
>
> Your list aims for 1.12. We definitely should try to have that appear
> within a reasonable time frame, too, if only because it's been so long
> in the making already.  However, just only fixing existing regressions
> and polishing stuff and testing will take a few weekends, even without
> what you've listed.
> 
> For 1.11.2, one thing I need to do is revert v1.11-328-ge87c030 or find
> another solution.
> 
> For 1.12, we need to split the testsuite or implement support for
> multiple testsuites in one directory.  Otherwise MinGW/MSYS won't work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf
> 
Agreed on all accounts.

Thanks,
  Stefano