Subject: Re: bug#10983: ready for a release?

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
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...