Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> OK, we're essentially at the end of the road for 1.2.
>
> * Locking feature is merged and tested
> * APIs are nearly done being cleaned up
> * last minute bugs are being fixed
> * issuetracker is being swept
> * I'm almost done with CHANGES and release-notes
>
> There are still some loose ends to tie up, but after some discussion
> with Ben Reser and Justin Erenkrantz, we'd like to do the branch and
> 1.2-rc1 tarball on Monday, starting around 10am Pacific time.
>
> So, there are two reasons for this email:
>
> First, this is an official "last call" for patches, tweaks.
Ah, time to get the Windows password encrypting simple provider into the
tree...
> Second, acting as co-RM's for this release, Ben and Justin would like
> to use 1.2 as an opportunity for making some tweaks to our release
> procedure:
>
> 1. Switch to libtool 1.5.10 in our tarball. Apparently this has
> been working well for the httpd project, and solves a number problems
> people have complained about. (Justin has details.)
Heh, couldn't care less... :-)
> 2. Require more formalized testing of the tarball. Just like the
> httpd release process, require three committers to officially "+1"
> (and gpg-sign) the tarball before release.
+1. It's Time.
> Comments welcome.
I don't know what's happening with the SWIG bindings in the Windows
build. Specifically, I suspect we don't support swig-1.3.23 (or whatever
it is) on Windows yet, and I think we should.
Would such build changes fall under the "bindings changes are allowed" rule?
-- Brane
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Received on Thu Mar 31 23:36:58 2005