Re: Stable release.

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:33:12AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> My proposal was just about a release addressing bit rot, namely just
>> making sure that the equivalent of the existing release 2.14.2 can be
>> compiled (with no regressions due to the recompilation) on current
>> systems that insist on not using precompiled binaries from us (which is
>> quite sensible for distributing GPLed software).
>
> Assuming that this is a 10-minute job, put stuff in the
> stable/2.14 git branch, just in case somebody grabs the source
> from git tarball.

It's more than 10 minutes since I have to through
hide-and-seek-and-recompile-and-check a few times.  But I don't think it
will take me longer than a few hours.  The two compiler bug fixes should
be reasonably easy to find again, and the C++ language issue should
resurface through attempting to compile, and then be traceable via git
blame.  I'll try to have something up today.  Whether we declare this as
"release" or provide it as a patch for 2.14.2 is something we can
probably decide after seeing what chance we have with gubbing it.

-- 
David Kastrup