David tells me that the libtooll branch is ready for prime time, and that
he has a 4.3 release tarball ready to go. I've built it on several
platforms (notably AIX4.3 and AIX5) and it seems fine. Its got
significant new features over 4.2 - like Martin's UI improvements, so I for
one think 4.3 is called for. Any dissents?
The main-streaming of the libtool branch seems to me appropriate. The
libtool approach certainly is the method of choice in the open-source
community and we need to keep up-to-date to preserve compatibility with the
rest of the world. So I guess I wonder what ought to happen with CVS.
Should we merge the trees? Make the current libtool branch the trunk and
the current trunk into a branch? Leave it alone? I guess I lean toward
merging and re-cutting the release tarball, since it seems like
distribution tarballs ought to come out of the main branch. Might be safer
to avoid the merge, though, and swap the trunk and branch. Or even tag the
head of the current main branch as the last pre-libtool code and simply
copy the libtool changes over. Opinions?
Greg
