On 28 Jan 2013, at 09:17, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > I won't be making it to FOSDEM this year, but I'd really like to make a new > release of gnustep-base in time for it (ie at the end of this week). > > This would technically be a subminor release (no breaking of binary backward > compatibility that I know of), but as well as a lot of bugfixes and OSX > compatibility tweaks, this contains significant changes to sorting (with a > new sorting algorithm used by default), SSH/TLS support (all the URL APIs > should now support HTTPS via GNUTLS), and a lot of tweaks by David for > Objective-C2 and ARC support. > > Please could people give the current code in svn trunk a good test this week, > and in particular, if anyone does spot any ABI breakage ... please flag it up.
Unfortunately, almost immediately after I sent this email I fell ill with some weird virus that inflames nerves and has made it pretty much impossible to sit at a desk and do anything ... so I haven't been able to address any problems coming up, and contrary to my expectations it seems there are quire a few: almost all related to libobjc2 compatibility since there have been a lot of libobjc2 changes since the last release. It would seem stupid to produce a new base release which works fine with traditional libobjc, but has problems with some versions of libobjc2, but starting today I'm away on a business trip for three days (and David, who's doing libobjc2 stuff, will be at FOSDEM and travelling there/back) so we can't resolve/test things in time and are going to have to delay a new release until after FOSDEM. Sorry about that, but we can still aim for a release within a week or so after FOSDEM. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
