-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paolo Bonzini on 3/30/2009 10:26 AM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> I'm interested in getting a beta-quality 2.64 release out the door soon. >> There are still known issues (primarily coverage of parallel autotest, but >> also a growing backlog of suggested improvements in my inbox) that prevent >> this from being a stable release. > > Can you summarize these improvements? Otherwise, parallel autotest can > be deemed experimental and not prevent the release to be considered stable.
Here's links to several issues that I have kept flagged in my inbox, but which have not been high enough priority for me to attempt any patches. I personally don't think any of them are worth holding up the release of beta 2.64, but would like to address some of them before declaring a stable 2.65 (or 3.0?) release. Detect cygwin's poor named fifo behavior in parallel autotest: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-10/msg00008.html See if m4_require can be improved to support arguments: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2008-10/msg00057.html Document and support a safe replacement for the dangerous undocumented AC_TRY_EVAL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2008-11/msg00004.html Improve AS_INIT_GENERATED to use diversion magic to minimize initialization time of child script: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-10/msg00281.html Improve semantics of CONFIG_SHELL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-11/msg00073.html Ensure sed replacement of $LINENO doesn't cause invalid script: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-10/msg00348.html Double-check that zsh is always in sh mode: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-11/msg00116.html Improve documentation of AT_CHECK, and provide a non-logging option for binary or large expected outputs: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2008-11/msg00047.html Fix AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C) for ICC 10.1: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-12/msg00030.html Fix AC_PROG_CXX to not default to g++ when no C++ compiler is present: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2009-03/msg00010.html Improve AS_ESCAPE implementation: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2009-03/msg00009.html Provide way to silence (cached) messages: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2009-02/msg00028.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2009-03/msg00010.html Improve documentation on AC_PROG_CC_C99: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2009-03/msg00049.html Figure out what to do about overquoting in AC_EGREP_CPP: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2009-03/msg00101.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknQ/M0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAqCwCgjXA4MoGNF2478RYYjYj8t/7f IrIAn1TKFqSxU3XIUbXTRKMPRWG+wOD5 =c7+8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----