Re: Any chance to make a new autoconf release?

[Luke Mewburn]

On 20-07-02 19:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
  | On 10/12/19 4:13 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
  | > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 03:09:16PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
  | >> How about if I turn the crank and release what's in master now? That is,
  | >> I run 'make fetch' and update the copyright year and NEWS and so forth,
  | >> but don't make any material changes. The fixes in master should be good
  | >> enough to release now, even if they're not what we'd like to do if we
  | >> had more time.
  | >>
  | >> We've had several requests to do a new release and nothing has happened.
  | >> At least releasing what we've got will make *something* happen.
  | > 
  | > Sounds good to me.  If master has known, material regressions over 2.69, 
that
  | > would be cause to delay.  The mere existence of unreviewed patches or bugs
  | > present in both 2.69 and master needn't delay it.
  | 
  | As you can see from the Savannah repository for Autoconf
  | <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git> I finally started the ball
  | rolling on this, and Zack Weinberg has volunteered to make a beta and push 
out a
  | new release sooner rather than later. Thaks, Zack!

This is great news.

BTW: I've just sent a patch to autoconf-patches to basename AS_INIT()
(per an issue I asked about here late last year). Could that be
incorporated in the release too?

cheers,
Luke.

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