Re: Downtime... musings... libtool-1.4

[Thomas Tanner]

Hi Gary,

On 18-Apr-2001 Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> I'd rather not, since there is a difficult merge on the other side of the 
> release and I won't have the time to help Alexandre with that in 2 weeks if 
> we wait that long =(O|  I really need to finalise 1.4 so that I can 
> concentrate on my book for the Summer.
> 
> How about this:  I'll release 1.4 this weekend and make a maintenance branch 
> so that Alexandre can make the first MLB merge.  If you find any bugs after 
> that, we can fix them in the maintenance branch and release 1.4.1.  I'm sure 
> we'll get a much bigger response to my call for testing on a 1.4 release than
> we did with 1.3d, so I expect that a 1.4.1 release will be needed inside a 
> month anyhow.

 Well, OK. Do what you think is right.
 I really don't know how stable libtool-HEAD is right now.
 Maybe I can find and fix some bugs till this weekend.

> In the mean while, I'd be happy to commit patches on your behalf if you mail 
> them to the patches list.

 Thanks.

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