Am 20.03.2018 um 14:58 schrieb Alan Carvalho de Assis: > Hi Philipp, > > On 3/20/18, Philipp Klaus Krause <p...@spth.de> wrote: >> In the past, for a few weeks after a SDCC release, there usually were >> quite some bug reports coming. People migrated to the new release and >> reported regressions. SDCC 3.7.0 was quite unusual in the high number of >> changes since the previous release, so I would have expected lots of bug >> reports. >> >> However, this is not what happened. Actually, I didn't see any increased >> activity on the bug tracker at all. I wonder why. My guesses are: >> >> 1) Few regressions. SDCC regression testing covererage gets better all >> the time, so potential regression are caught early and don'T make it >> into releases. >> >> 2) SDCC users are still using 3.6.0 instead of 3.7.0. If this is the >> case, there is again a question of why. 3.7.0 was a source-code only >> release. Did that prevent some from moving on to 3.6.0? Any other >> reasons to stay with 3.6.0? >> > > I just noticed that Debian still using an even older SDCC version, > even in the unstable repository: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/electronics/sdcc > > BR, > > Alan
I'm in contact with the Debian maintainer, there is hope for a new version sometime this year. In general Debian tends to be quite slow in picking up new SDCC versions. OpenBSD used to be even worse (they still had 2.8.0 in 2016), but then they started to adopt current SDCC versions relatively quickly (they had 3.6.0 until recetnly, updated to 3.7.0 one week after the 3.7.0 release). Fedora rawhide currently has SDCC 3.6.0, OpenSUSE has 3.5.0. But the distro situation was similar with previous releases, so I don't think this accounts for the low number of bug reports after the 3.7.0 release. Philipp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
