Re: new coreutils snapshot; are they useful?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Last night I made another coreutils snapshot:
>
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz.sig
>
>   aka
>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-ss-2007-02-14.00:04:10+0.tar.gz
>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-ss-2007-02-14.00:04:10+0.tar.gz.sig
>
> If you take the time to build/test, it'd be nice to let me or the list
> know, even if it's just to say that everything went fine.  For all I know
> (I rarely look at the web logs, and there's been almost no feedback),
> no one even looks at the snapshots.  If there's no interest, then
> I'll stop providing them.  Actually, that wouldn't be too surprising,
> since the process of checking out the code and running "./bootstrap &&
> ./configure && make && make dist" probably works fine for most people
> who try, these days.

I, at least, appreciate them (although I admit I haven't tried the cvs 
thing on coreutils yet). I might appreciate them more if the one with 
the timestamp had a name that didn't confuse tar. :-)

I'm going to give AIX another run, since I ran into problems last time.

--
Matthew
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