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Re: port some changes from master to branch-2.5
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: port some changes from master to branch-2.5 |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:33:11 +0100 |
Hi Joel,
Le 30 déc. 2009 à 21:08, Joel E. Denny a écrit :
>> There is quite some work here :( We have too many branches alive. I'm
>> sorry I don't help more; making some releases would relieve you from
>> maintaining so many different versions.
>
> I think we should roll 2.4.2 soon. I can do it if you're too busy.
I don't see when I would do it :( I'm sorry I failed you on this one, I meant
to release it some time ago. But never managed to spend enough time on it.
Please, proceed whenever you fee like doing it.
> However, there are at least two issues now that we should address first:
>
> 1. Florian Krohm reported a problem with %prec. Unless there are
> objections, I'll soon push the latest solution I proposed:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00039.html
I agree with your proposal.
> 2. You and I have discussed putting together a survey for our users. I
> asked gnu-prog-discuss for advice on a free survey tool with free hosting.
> So far, there haven't been any suggestions that seem to do what we need
> and still satisfy the FSF. I later noticed that a voting system for
> Savannah is actually one of the points discussed at the latest GNU hackers
> meeting. In summary, I'm thinking it may be a while before we find
> anything we can use. Maybe we should just postpone the survey until after
> the 2.4.2 release.
Yes, maybe we should. At Gostai, we recently discovered http://uservoice.com/.
I've not used it yet, but it looks very nice.
> In any case, I'm growing less inclined to ask our users for permission to
> move to C99 in the front-end. I've been finding it difficult to resist on
> the 2.5 and master branches. C99 is over a decade old, so I think we
> should feel free to move forward. Of course, I understand that the
> backend is a different issue.
I concur. Actually, the other question is moving to C++ :)
- Re: port some changes from master to branch-2.5,
Akim Demaille <=