All, Following the Google Summer of Code, we have a number of significant functional changes queued up for merging into findutils. These include:
1. Better support for systems that tell you the value of ARG_MAX but then don't honour command lines of that length. 2. Support in find for various kinds of extended file attribute 3. A C replacement for updatedb. This work was done by Leslie Polzer. I contributed occasional improvements, the command pipeline support for updatedb, and regular merges of the trunk code to minimise the eventual burden of merging. You can take a look at Leslie's changes at http://repo.or.cz/w/findutils.git?a=shortlog;h=polzer There is a significant amount of functional change here, and so we need to choose between making a new stable release containing more or less the current 4.3.x branch, and deferring a new stable release until some of Leslie's code has been merged in. Because of the size of Leslie's changes, this would likely mean significant delays to the production of a new stable release. I think my personal preference would be to make a 4.4.0 "stable" release, and merge Leslie's changes into a new "development" release 4.5.x. But this approach only works if the 4.3.x code is stable enough to form the basis of a new stable release. What say you? James.
