Re: coreutils plans, test release coming soon, then stable, then selinux

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
>> I expect to release coreutils-6.8 (not called "stable", but not
>> particularly "unstable" either) soon.  Then, soon (i.e. a week)
>> afterwards, I want to make a stable 6.9 release.
>
> Hmm, should we reduce the amount of gnulib changes in this period, or
> are you going to shield yourself from gnulib changes by taking a gnulib
> checkout at a fixed date (like I do for gettext)?
>
> I'm asking because I'm starting to create the "complete" header files, as
> outlined in 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-02/msg00099.html,
> and the modifications for <stdlib.h>, <unistd.h>, <wchar.h> may well impact
> coreutils.

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for asking, but my plans for coreutils shouldn't delay
gnulib progress.  I may well opt to use a snapshot of gnulib
for the stable release.  For the not-necessarily-stable coreutils
release, it's not as clear.  We'll see how things go.
I may even postpone things a little, if you expect to finish
soon, in order to give the new infrastructure more exposure.