Hi, On 31/03/2021 09:49, Pieter Bonne wrote: > Hello all, > > Has there historically been a release schedule for rdiff-backup? To be > concrete I'm anticipating a Windows build that supports long paths, which > is getting to be a serious headache. Could you provide some insight on > when to expect a next release?
TL;DR: not anytime soon, unless someone becomes active. I'm in the middle of a restructuration of the code and until I've reached a stable state, there will be no releases. I'm planning to release "soonish" an alpha version, which will profit from the recent enhancements to PyInstaller 4.2 [1], but I wouldn't recommend anybody to use it for production purposes. An alternative would be if someone would volunteer to maintain a stable branch of v2.0.x. There is this issue which would be fixed by just re-building the package, and a few fixes which could be taken from master and back-ported, making a nice v2.0.6 version: * FIX: avoid breaking on non-readable files, causing ListError, closes #34, closes #245 * FIX: avoids MemoryError on Windows when compiling for 64 bits, closes #453 * FIX: cross device link error on ZFS with project quota, closes #519 (#522) * FIX: longnames are correctly reversed when regressing a failed back-up, closes #9 * FIX: PID handling when process is interrupted now works properly under Windows. * FIX: setting tempdir under Windows might fail with error about mix of bytes and str, closes #540 I'm just lacking the time to do it, but if someone wants to give it a try, I'll support. Alternatively you can just create your own build based on v2.0.5, just using version 4.2 of PyInstaller. There are instructions and scripts on how to do this [2], KR, Eric [1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/236?_pjax=%23js-repo-pjax-container#issuecomment-812347531 [2] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/blob/master/docs/Windows-DEVELOP.md