Re: New release wishlist

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:07:14PM CEST:
> JFTR, here are the things that IMHO we must do for the next release:

Right now, I'm aiming at 1.11.2, not 1.12.  The minimum for the former
is *no* additional features.  The important thing is no regressions, not
really any new feature.  I might be talked into reviewing ACLOCAL_PATH
support for that, and maybe a couple of the other issues that fix bugs
are safe enough (esp. we could think about deprecating ansi2knr), but
other than that I'd be rather cautious.  I want 1.11.2 to be pluggable
for everyone that uses 1.11.1, without *any* thinking (i.e., distros
should be able to just drop it in).

Your list aims for 1.12.  We definitely should try to have that appear
within a reasonable time frame, too, if only because it's been so long
in the making already.  However, just only fixing existing regressions
and polishing stuff and testing will take a few weekends, even without
what you've listed.

For 1.11.2, one thing I need to do is revert v1.11-328-ge87c030 or find
another solution.

For 1.12, we need to split the testsuite or implement support for
multiple testsuites in one directory.  Otherwise MinGW/MSYS won't work.

Thanks,
Ralf