[M3devel] HEADS UP: release_CM3_5_8_RC2 / code freeze

[Jay K]

I'd still like to:
 
  reduce the indirection in the recently introduced symlinks..it is a small change (that's what I always say!) (though the movement from pkg to lib I wouldn't call small)
 
 
  improve the state of a few targets, esp. ARM_DARWIN, I386_SOLARIS, AMD64_SOLARIS, maybe SPARC64_SOLARIS, SPARC64_OPENBSD, AMD64_OPENBSD, AMD64_NETBSD, I386_OPENBSD, maybe others
 
  These might be be mostly just: 
    - updating RTSignalC.c 
    - updating the GNU configuration name for AMD64_SOLARIS in m3cc/src/m3makefile 
    - fix my Python scripts to consume the master package list, build m3gdb, build cm3ide, build in dependency order (huh, I thought they always did, now not sure), add your feature of passing on extra parameteres to cm3
    - maybe change the *.sh files to accept parameters in any order like the *.py
    - maybe whittle away more on m3core/src/unix

Also some minor features I'll propose shortly.
 
 - Jay







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> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:33:56 +0200
> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com; m3-support at elego.de
> Subject: RE: [M3devel] HEADS UP: release_CM3_5_8_RC2 / code freeze
>
> Quoting Jay K :
>
>> How does one checkout, update or commit to RC2 and beyond RC2?
>
> No changes here. I'd just like to avoid branching for the release,
> and concentrate work on it.
>
>> There is still maybe the formsedit crash. I'll verify soon.
>>
>> Ideally we get to a situation in which distributions are built every
>> day and what we ship is merely picked among them. I need to ever
>> get Tinderbox working and under cron or in a loop.
>>
>> I also wonder if we should go back to 5.7.something, since we burned
>> through 5.7 fairly fast.
>
> Please, let's just provide one stable official release, and not confuse
> anybody by using old version numbers.
>
> Olaf
>
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>>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:31:40 +0200
>>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>>> CC: m3-support at elego.de
>>> Subject: [M3devel] HEADS UP: release_CM3_5_8_RC2 / code freeze
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm currently tagging the source base with release_CM3_5_8_RC2.
>>> The reported compiler vesion will be d5.8.2 for this RC.
>>> There seems to be a neverending stream of commits, which makes
>>> it quite difficult to choose a good time to do this, but I hope
>>> that Tinderbox will show no major problems with the tagged sources.
>>>
>>> I'd like everybody for the next weeks to postpone their functional
>>> changes and concentrate on testing and fixing bugs that are found
>>> or already known. If anybody knows of any problems with the current
>>> tag we can still move it in places _before_ we build any release
>>> archives. Tagging the whole repository is a quite costly operation
>>> in CVS.
>>>
>>> To summarize:
>>>
>>> o refrain from functional changes
>>> o report and correct bugs
>>> o don't build any distribution archives until we've agreed we've
>>> tagged a good source set
>>>
>>> I'll perform some testing myself and try to prepare a draft for the
>>> release notes (a lot of changes occured in the recent years) within the
>>> next days.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your patience and your contribution,
>>>
>>> Olaf
>>> --
>>> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
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>
>
>
> --
> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany
> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95
> http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin
> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194
>