Re: A preprelease?

[Akim Demaille]

| > From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
| > Date: 01 Aug 2002 12:39:31 +0200
| > 
| > I still have miserable access to the Internet at work (mail and web,
| > no upload).  At home, it's a 56K modem...  I don't think I can really
| > expect making the prerelease.  Would you handle it?
| 
| This took a bit longer than I expected, since I ran into problems
| building and testing the prerelease on machines other than GNU/Linux
| x86.  

Weird :(

| I fixed the problems I ran into.  I think the code still is
| quite unreliable in the presence of very large (> 2 GiB) grammars and
| inputs, but I didn't have time to check this.  

It does solve some problems found by some users, so as is, it is
really something people are waiting for.  But I don't know if 2Gb
grammars will be met soon :)


| So I finally made a
| prerelease and put it out on gnudist, and it should appear on alpha
| soon.  I'll send out an announcement when it's ready.

Wow!  What a wonderful work!  Thanks a lot Paul!!!


| Here are the patches I installed.  In addition to the following patch
| file, I removed m4/stage.m4, updated translations, regenerated
| files that could be generated automatically, and added Paul Hilfinger
| to the THANKS file.

Great!

I have a few comments to make, in separated messages.