On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> since I've done quite some base development since the last release I figured 
> I'd chime in and offer my opinion.
> 
> Releasing the stdlib changes is certainly a good idea IMO. However, I'd argue 
> we should drop the check currently present in rev-upgrade that will print 
> warnings for ports built against a non-default stdlib – it generates a lot of 
> warning noise for some ports, is not always easily fixable and useless for 
> users. We should rather enable it on demand or move it to a different place 
> (post-destroot perhaps?).
> 
> A couple of stuff that could be done with new base, which I think is totally 
> ready to be released ASAP:
> - curl post command and r116820 for package statistics.
>   Some server-side and Portfile stuff still needs to be done for the 
> statistics, but we'd have a base release ready for it.
> - Check for command line tools and Xcode license agreement.
>   In r115900, we've seen a lot of reports of missing command line tools 
> lately that could be solved by that.
> - Working trace mode.
>   I've been building with trace mode enabled exclusively for the last 3 
> months and I'm pretty confident it's ready for a release. We could even 
> modify FAQ#buildfails to suggest trying with trace mode on for all the people 
> out there with a clobbered /usr/local.

yay!

> - r113704 fixing a regression quite a few people encountered with the 
> sandboxing stuff.
> 
> So, in general, I'd welcome a timely release of 2.3 :)
> 
> I have the private copy of Tcl 8.5 coming up in the pipe and almost done, but 
> if I'm not getting that done in on time it could wait for another release.

It would be nice if we could do a release now and another release when that's 
ready (and just in general do releases more often).

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                  
 
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