coreutils-8.4 very soon

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi Bruno and Eric, Considering the coreutils-8.3 build failures, I'm going to release coreutils-8.4 soon, perhaps on Wednesday. A cursory review and preliminary testing suggests that it will be safe to use the latest from gnulib. Since you two have made relatively large changes recently, what do

Re: coreutils-8.4 very soon

2010-01-11 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, > Since you two have made relatively large changes recently, > what do you think of using the latest in a bug-fix-only coreutils release? The changes between commit 7a29e0093f4a87478cdf7b7c87786272d6f37dfe and today look reasonably safe. Most of new the libunistring tests won't affect cor

Re: coreutils-8.4 very soon

2010-01-11 Thread Ian Beckwith
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:25:53PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Considering the coreutils-8.3 build failures, I'm going to release > coreutils-8.4 soon, perhaps on Wednesday. A cursory review and > preliminary testing suggests that it will be safe to use the latest > from gnulib. Since you two ha

Re: coreutils-8.4 very soon

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Ian Beckwith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:25:53PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Considering the coreutils-8.3 build failures, I'm going to release >> coreutils-8.4 soon, perhaps on Wednesday. A cursory review and >> preliminary testing suggests that it will be safe to use the latest >> from

Re: coreutils-8.4 very soon

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: >> Since you two have made relatively large changes recently, >> what do you think of using the latest in a bug-fix-only coreutils release? > > The changes between commit 7a29e0093f4a87478cdf7b7c87786272d6f37dfe and today > look reasonably safe. Most of new the libunistring test