Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I would really appreciate it if we could release a new version of >> setup.exe with (at least) Pierre Humblet's ntsec changes soon. I >> think it is becoming very clear that Pierre's ntsec changes are >> required if we want sane behavior for executables after installation. >> >> Having Gary's "resize" option available wouldn't hurt either.
Gary's current pending patch is a foundation, but without user-visible changes so far. >> Robert, I know you're busy but is there any way you could maybe >> offload the release onto someone else? I'm willing to give someone >> cvs access if that helps. > > We've got a set of logic bugs to fix before we can release - > orthogonal to the resize and ntsec changes. Yes. But the ntsec changes *could* be applied to the 2.249 (setup-200206) branch, though - the patch applies with fuzz, but no rejects. And that could be released right now. > cvs access isn't the bottleneck - Max has been doing a great job of > commiting post-review. > > The bottleneck is programmer time - someone needs to fix those logic > bugs and submit a patch. > > There was a thread on this the last time we got keen about a release > :}. > > I am really really hoping to flush the patch queue this weekend at > least as far as code reviews goes. (although I may end up asking Max > to commit :}). I'm happy to do that. Max.