"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi! Please test this as if it were the final 1.9.5 and report any > issues. It would be nice to go over the NEWS entries to make sure they > reflect all noteworthy changes since 1.9.4. I am not aware of anything > else that has to be done before a 1.9.5 release. Please don't start to > make major changes now, I think releasing 1.9.5 has priority over almost > anything. > > First of all, thank you Simon! > > So I'm not goint to put sticks into wheels for people pushing the bike > -- I think it is a fine plan to not do any major changes (I'm > ambivalent on the topic).
If anyone has major changes planned, please feel free to push them to a branch! I think we can review things in parallel while trying to get the release out, if there is anything to look at. > Mats-Erik, do you see any issues at this point? > > Could you give me a few days to go over things? Certainly! > Building on Cygwin and Mingw does not work, but I think we can > document that as known problems, and invite people to send fixes > for those platforms if they care. 1.9.4 doesn't work on those > platforms either, as far as I know. > > Has it ever worked? I don't know -- maybe not, so I don't think it is a priority. > This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: > Autoconf 2.69 > > Autoconf 2.70? Or are there fixes needed? I'll install autoconf 2.70 locally. That list was missing several tools so I'll add them too, in case the versions makes a difference. /Simon
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