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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: ready for a release?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:47:29 +0100

There are more than enough new features to justify a release,
not to mention the three bug fixes.

Anything worth waiting for?

Message #12 received at 10983-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, Coreutils <coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10983-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:18:19 +0000

tag 10983 notabug

On 03/09/2012 05:47 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> There are more than enough new features to justify a release,
> not to mention the three bug fixes.
> 
> Anything worth waiting for?

Well the dirname multi argument processing to
complement the basename seems simple and
worth waiting for.

Also adding back the functionality to
allow split to create an arbitrary amount
of files is done and also seems unlikely
to cause issues.

Also there is a gnulib tweak to support
building timeout as a static binary.

I hope to push these this evening.

cheers,
Pádraig.

Message #15 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:11:35 -0800

On 03/09/2012 09:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Anything worth waiting for?

That reminds me.  I've got a 2x performance improvement in
GNU sort, for some common use cases.  It's a student-written
patch; they've signed papers.  The patch is about 1000 lines
(I'll need to rebase it).  Are you game for reviewing
this before the release?

Message #18 received at 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:46:00 +0000

On 03/09/2012 09:11 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 09:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Anything worth waiting for?
> 
> That reminds me.  I've got a 2x performance improvement in
> GNU sort, for some common use cases.  It's a student-written
> patch; they've signed papers.  The patch is about 1000 lines
> (I'll need to rebase it).  Are you game for reviewing
> this before the release?

Intriguing. I'd be on for reviewing it sometime tomorrow.

Also there is the `ln -s --relative` patch from Harald Hoyer,
which needs a bit of refactoring at least, but are still
some questions in my mind over the interface, so I'm not
sure I'll get to it this weekend.

cheers,
Pádraig.

Message #21 received at 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:08:59 +0000

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On 03/09/2012 06:18 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> tag 10983 notabug
> 
> On 03/09/2012 05:47 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> There are more than enough new features to justify a release,
>> not to mention the three bug fixes.
>>
>> Anything worth waiting for?
> 
> Well the dirname multi argument processing to
> complement the basename seems simple and
> worth waiting for.

Attached.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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Message #24 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:22:26 -0800

On 03/09/2012 01:46 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Intriguing. I'd be on for reviewing it sometime tomorrow.

I'm afraid I'm not quite *that* fast...
If you want to release really quickly perhaps the
performance improvement can wait until next week.

(I'm currently trying to get a 'grep' patch out the door,
to get 'grep -r' to use fts and to give recursive greps
a way to not follow symlinks....)

Message #27 received at 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:13:45 +0100

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 01:46 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Intriguing. I'd be on for reviewing it sometime tomorrow.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not quite *that* fast...
> If you want to release really quickly perhaps the
> performance improvement can wait until next week.

1000 lines.  That sounds like it is a large enough patch
(and to sensitive enough code) that I would prefer
to defer it until after 8.16 in any case.

> (I'm currently trying to get a 'grep' patch out the door,
> to get 'grep -r' to use fts and to give recursive greps
> a way to not follow symlinks....)

Great.  That will be most welcome.
I'll be glad to be rid of grep's mongrel lib/safedir.c.

Message #30 received at 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:51:04 +0000

On 03/10/2012 07:22 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 01:46 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Intriguing. I'd be on for reviewing it sometime tomorrow.
> 
> I'm afraid I'm not quite *that* fast...
> If you want to release really quickly perhaps the
> performance improvement can wait until next week.

Oh sorry I thought it was mostly done.
Not something to rush...

> (I'm currently trying to get a 'grep' patch out the door,
> to get 'grep -r' to use fts and to give recursive greps
> a way to not follow symlinks....)

...or get distracted with.
Probably a candidate for the next release so.

cheers,
Pádraig.

Message #31 received at 10983-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 10983-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Coreutils <coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:02:21 +0100

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> tag 10983 notabug
>
> On 03/09/2012 05:47 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> There are more than enough new features to justify a release,
>> not to mention the three bug fixes.
>>
>> Anything worth waiting for?
>
> Well the dirname multi argument processing to
> complement the basename seems simple and
> worth waiting for.
>
> Also adding back the functionality to
> allow split to create an arbitrary amount
> of files is done and also seems unlikely
> to cause issues.
>
> Also there is a gnulib tweak to support
> building timeout as a static binary.
>
> I hope to push these this evening.

Thanks.  Those all sound fine for 8.16, but there's no great hurry.
Monday or Tuesday, maybe...

Message #34 received at 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:06:47 -0600

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On 03/09/2012 10:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> There are more than enough new features to justify a release,
> not to mention the three bug fixes.
> 
> Anything worth waiting for?

I should revive my efforts on getting //path handling under realpath
working for cygwin.  Expect a resent email later today.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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Message #37 received at 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 10983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:14:13 +0100

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 10:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> There are more than enough new features to justify a release,
>> not to mention the three bug fixes.
>>
>> Anything worth waiting for?
>
> I should revive my efforts on getting //path handling under realpath
> working for cygwin.  Expect a resent email later today.

Sounds good.

I have barely looked at coreutils for the last few days,
so now I'm aiming for a release on Wednesday or later.

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