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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