time for a 0.9.31 release?

Carmelo AMOROSO carmelo.amoroso at st.com
Thu Jun 18 10:21:31 UTC 2009


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Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> Dan E wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:24 +0200, "Natanael Copa"
>> <natanael.copa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Its now 7 months since 0.9.30 was released. Is it time for a 0.9.31
>>> release candidate?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -nc
>> The TODO file says NPTL will be merged in for the .30 release.  That
>> obviously didn't happen. 
> Anyway the NPTL branch is actually a reality, production ready C
> lib, running on real boxes, at least for what I can on SH4, used
> effectively by STMicroelectronics customers.
>> I would like to see that effort finished
>> before .31 is released. 
> I don't have any free time currently.
>> The way things are going that won't happen for
>> another 6 months or so.  Maybe a year. 
> You are too pessimistic
>> Unfortunately, such delays are
>> unavoidable when a project relies on unpaid volunteers to do the heavy
>> lifting. 
> I'm payed by my company for doing this, but it's not the only thing
> I have to do.
>> uClibc has gotten "good enough" for most users, and that is a
>> problem as far as new development goes.
> 
> yes, uClibc (and NPTL too) is good enough thanks to all developers
> effort.
> We did new development recently (added argp and FTS support required
> by libdw and libwfl) that I hope to push back soon (as soon as I'll
> get our git on an external server, I'll send the git url, so
> everybody can have a look and clone).
> 
here it is
web access at http://git.stlinux.com/?p=stm/uclibc.git;a=summary

for cloning:
git clone git://git.stlinux.com/stm/uclibc.git

> Cheers,
> Carmelo
> 
> 
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