Re: plans?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 08:10:22PM CEST:
> On 08/26/2010 12:03 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >do you intend to release 2.68 soon, so that GNOME packages (with URLs in
> >AC_INIT's BUG-ADDRESS) can build again?
> 
> My goal is within the next two weeks; I'd still like to get my
> initial XSI expansion sniffing completed (I don't know if I will get
> AS_DIRNAME portably rewritten to use fewer forks or not, but even
> being able to request shells that support ${a%b} is a good goal for
> 2.68).

Agreed.

> I'm also hoping to address Bruno's idea of AC_RUN_IFELSE and
> friends doing some more sanity checking that their program body was
> provided by AC_LANG_SOURCE.

Do you have an idea for an implementation yet?

> >If not, I'd like to ping the atomic config.cache and the long lines in
> >testsuite patches.  Actually, I might want to ping them regardless,
> >since more intrusive changes are going in ATM anyway.
> 
> I probably missed them; can you post a URL to help me get to
> reviewing them faster?

Sure; sorry about not doing that right away.  Here they are:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/7293
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/7297
plus the changes from my reply folded in.

Thanks,
Ralf