On 03/03/2014 11:12 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 03/03/2014 10:11 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> So coreutils-8.23 is shaping up to be a bug fix release >> which I hope could be released within 3-4 weeks. >> There are a few outstanding items including various df fixes >> and sort multithreaded fixups to include. We should concentrate >> on any of the outstanding non feature bugs in this time. > > I'm not aware of a sort issue - what do you refer to here?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-01/msg00032.html >> After that the ground would be clear for a more >> invasive update to add prelim multibyte support >> and also the unified join/uniq/sort key selection. > > Hooray! The idea of throwing away (parts of) that huge and ugly > downstream I18N patch saves my day. ;-) > >> So I'm thinking: >> >> 4 weeks: 8.23 bugfix stable >> 10 weeks: 9.0 feature unstable >> 14 weeks: 9.1 bugfix stable >> >> thoughts? > > We'll need much test cases for the I18N support. In the downstream > patches, there are only a few ones, and some of them are even > skipped because they'd sometimes fail. Yes test cases are vitally important here. Restricting these to expand/unexpand should be doable. I already provided some test cases off the top of my head, and would bolster those when reviewing fully. thanks, Pádraig.
