Re: 4.2.2 release

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/15/2018 12:52 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/15/2018 10:37 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > I'd like to make the 4.2.2 release now.
> >
> > One of the most visible issues it should fix is the crash on exit.  My 
> > build of the current stable sources does appear to work properly and 
> > teh crash no longer happens.  Does anyone else still experience the 
> > crash?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Not related to the exit crash, here's another one to consider before 
> release:
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53137
>
> I can't say this is a problem, and I can't point to any manifestation of 
> the color table being accessed prematurely.  However, in doing 
> development here, every once in a while I'll have a crash at launch. 
> Knowing how difficult it is to debug rare-occurrence segfaults, I wonder 
> if it is easier to just fix the above code and see if the launch crash 
> goes away for me.  If this were an issue, it'd be of the sort where 
> there is a race between the system setting up the color tables and the 
> GUI accessing them at launch.

The variable editor doesn't exist on the stable branch, so it won't be 
part of 4.2.2.

I pushed the patch to default.

jwe