[M3devel] HEADS UP: release_CM3_5_8_RC2 / code freeze

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

> 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

Minor corrections and improvements can still be made for the next
release candidate (RC3), or release (if we agree that RC2 is OK ;-)

>     - 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.

Well, we originally wanted to deliver a release (which has been overdue
for many years) in May; now it's mid of July. There's always lots of
stuff we can improve, but why not do it in the next release?

We'll never get anything released if we continue adding new things...

Olaf


> ----------------------------------------
>> 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
>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> 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
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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
>>



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    http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin
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