On 11/16/2012 10:46 PM, James Youngman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Bernhard Voelker > <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote: >> >> On 11/13/2012 01:20 AM, James Youngman wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Bernhard Voelker >>> <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> BTW: Why is the latest version on ftp.gnu.org still 4.4.2 >>>> (3.5 years old) while distros already use newer versions? >>> >>> The short answer is that the 4.5.x code has release-blocking bugs: >>> >>> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils&func=browse&set=custom&msort=0&assigned_to[]=0&resolution_id[]=0&severity[]=0&status_id[]=1&vote[]=&date[]=&date_op[]==&advsrch=0&msort=0&chunksz=50&spamscore=5&report_id=206&sumORdet=&morder=bug_id%3C&order=severity#results >>> >> >> Hi James, >> >> I understand, ... >> ... but huh? OpenSuSE-12.2 and Fedora 16+ are already on 4.5.10 > > If the above bugs aren't sufficiently serious for those distributions > to avoid a move to 4.5.x, it's their choice. I have no problem with > it.
I read the list, and at first glance it seems that almost all of the bug have been opened against the 4.4.x series, e.g #30526, so it doesn't seem to be much lost to go to 4.5.x. ;-) >> (Ubuntu and Debian are still on 4.4.2), and there's only been >> 1 single commit in 2012: >> >> $ git log | grep ^Date: | head -n 2 >> Date: Mon Jun 4 12:30:52 2012 +0200 >> Date: Fri Dec 30 12:16:09 2011 +0000 > > Yes, during 2012 I have moved house, had problems with typing (partly > with physiotherapy, this has been resolved now) and I need to spend > time looking after my daughter (she's just over 1). It's not been > feasible to find time to work on findutils (it's not been easy to find > time to work on my day job either, but that's difficult to > de-prioritise). You've chosen the right priority - family is much more important, you're right. >> Any plans how to get out of this? > > Certainly! The findutils project can always use more volunteers and > as you can see the number of remaining known bugs in 4.5.x is quite > small. The findutils code is pretty readable and has fairly > extensive tests. All that's needed is for someone to pick up the > bugs, write the necessary changes and contribute the code to GNU. > > I'm not saying that I _won't_ work on these bugs, but as your git log > output shows us, recent history demonstrates that having more > contributors is a surer way to make sure that findutils progresses > faster. > > You already suggested one patch above. Could this be interpreted as a > sign of possible ongoing interest, or would you say it's a one-off? Well, why not? I personally see find+xargs like the other basic utilities in coreutils, and others like sed and grep. I'm using all of them on a daily basis. I'm subscribed now. ;-) Re. faster progress: maybe this idea is totally crazy. Maybe it's too much for some folks to follow 2 mailing lists just for just 2-4 programs, i.e. the group of volunteers following find/xargs problems is smaller than it could be. Wouldn't the time be ideal to merge findutils into coreutils? I mean there have been days with separate textutils, sh-utils and fileutils ... Just a little thought. Have a nice day, Berny _______________________________________________ Findutils-patches mailing list Findutils-patches@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/findutils-patches
