Re: Getting ready to land native-compilation on master

[Alex Bennée]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAICT, we are quite ready to land this important feature.  The branch
> was tested on several systems and is in good shape: many issues and
> bugs were fixed, and currently no known issues remain that block the
> merge.  (There's a lot yet to do wrt documenting the feature and its
> various aspects, but that can be done on master after merging.)
>
> If some of you have some unusual or rare or exotic system or Emacs
> configuration, and did not yet try building the native-comp branch,
> this is your chance to have a go before the merge: please build the
> branch and report any issues or problems you bump into.
>
> If no significant issues pop up within a week, I will ask Andrea to
> merge the branch onto master the next weekend (i.e. around 17th of
> April).
>
> Last, but not least: I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Andrea
> for his hard work and perseverance during this last year.  We would
> not be where we are now with this feature without his devotion and
> determination to see this through.  Thanks a lot!

+1 - I've been running the native-comp branch as my daily work driver
for most of the last year. The few problems I've run into have been
quickly addressed by Andrea on the list so I'm perfectly happy it's
ready for a wider testing audience.

I'll switch my daily driver branch once merged ;-)

-- 
Alex Bennée