On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 07:50 Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de wrote:

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> > Am 01.01.2019 um 12:44 schrieb Ivan Vučica <i...@vucica.net>:
> >
> > Hi maintainers,
> >
> > If you want, I can spend some time cutting a release. It has been a
> while since the last one. Do we need a one? Are there critical bugs we
> fixed? Are there critical bugs blocking the release?
>
> There weren’t that many changes to GNustep in the last year, but cutting a
> new release would be nice. I have been working on a few changes to the opal
> backend to get PikoPixel working in that setup. Having a release deadline
> in about two weeks could motivate me to finish these changes :-)
>
>
> > There’s a pull request for icu-config removal that we could apply to
> -base. It might warrant a release.
>
> Yes, I have been thinking about that pull request. The problem is that
> this will break icu on systems where the pkg config for icu isn’t present.
> I think this has been around for at least six years. This should be long
> enough even for GNUstep standards. :-(
>

The icu-config script used to be the recommended method for finding the
libraries. I just liked at the documentation and pkg-config is now
recommended, so making this change would just guarantee future
compatibility. Per the latest ICU documentation, icu-config is deprecated.

> If the answer is yes, if you can help me by updating the
> (non-autogenerated) pieces of the release notes, that would help me a bit.
> >
> > If the answer is yes, I would be cutting the release on a weekend.
>
> Great, but please give me a bit more time.
>
> Fred
>
>
> PS: Did you see the two pull requests for back today? The first one, that
> wasn’t a real pull request rather a question about the code, has triggered
> me to rethink the removal of RContext. Perhaps somebody else could have a
> look too?
>
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