Re: new release?

2022-02-08 Thread Roumen Petrov
Hi Alex Ameen, Alex Ameen wrote: This is a good question. I plan on making a new release this month. When I first adopted the project I ambitiously thought I'd manage to create a new release after about a month; but the truth is when I started doing a deep dive into the internals

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Sam James
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 12:21:34 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Daniel Herring wrote: > > > > In my opinion, frequent slow releases are way better than rare fast > > releases. > > That may be true for some software, but libtool has a really good > test suite so if tests

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Sam James
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 12:14:29 -0600 Alex Ameen wrote: > Thanks for all of the advice y'all. > > I'm going to get this release together as soon as possible and resolve > issues from there. > > I agree that paralysis set in a bit as a result of me trying to test > a bit overboard on my own ( lots

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Daniel Herring
No worries. Glad someone is carrying the project forward. Next time, consider using the "slow process" as "outsourced QA testing". It might be easier and faster. :) -- Daniel On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, Alex Ameen wrote: Thanks for all of the advice y'all. I'm going to get this release together

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Alex Ameen
Thanks for all of the advice y'all. I'm going to get this release together as soon as possible and resolve issues from there. I agree that paralysis set in a bit as a result of me trying to test a bit overboard on my own ( lots of VMs ). I appreciate the reality check :) On Mon, Feb 7, 2022,

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Frederic Berat
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 8:02 PM Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 06 Feb 2022 11:56, Daniel Herring wrote: > > FWIW, libtool is a particularly difficult code base to release. Long > > history, many users, multi-platform, ... > > > > I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 06 Feb 2022 11:56, Daniel Herring wrote: > FWIW, libtool is a particularly difficult code base to release. Long > history, many users, multi-platform, ... > > I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are confident > this release will "do no harm". It was made for a

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Daniel Herring wrote: In my opinion, frequent slow releases are way better than rare fast releases. That may be true for some software, but libtool has a really good test suite so if tests pass, there is high confidence of quality for the systems it has been executed on.

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:57 AM Daniel Herring wrote: > I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are confident > this release will "do no harm". Hasn't it been slow enough already? Some say the project is finished.

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Daniel Herring
rdie wrote: On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 21:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 05 Feb 2022 15:15, Alex Ameen wrote: This is a good question. I plan on making a new release this month. When I first adopted the project I ambitiously thought I'd manage to create a new release after about a month; but the tru

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 21:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 05 Feb 2022 15:15, Alex Ameen wrote: > > This is a good question. I plan on making a new release this month. > > > > When I first adopted the project I ambitiously thought I'd manage to > > create a new

Re: new release?

2022-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 05 Feb 2022 15:15, Alex Ameen wrote: > This is a good question. I plan on making a new release this month. > > When I first adopted the project I ambitiously thought I'd manage to > create a new release after about a month; but the truth is when I > started do

Re: new release?

2022-02-05 Thread Alex Ameen
This is a good question. I plan on making a new release this month. When I first adopted the project I ambitiously thought I'd manage to create a new release after about a month; but the truth is when I started doing a deep dive into the internals there was a lot of history and complexity

new release?

2022-02-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Alex, can you estimate when you will be able to do a new release? Just to tell people that the project is still alive :-) Werner

Re: New release?

2020-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-05-24 14:24:12 +0200, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote: > Please excuse if this has been asked recently and I have missed it. > > I'd like to ask when or whether we can expect a new libtool release? Many > improvements have happened since the last release. For example, many builds > are

New release?

2020-05-24 Thread Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
Please excuse if this has been asked recently and I have missed it. I'd like to ask when or whether we can expect a new libtool release? Many improvements have happened since the last release. For example, many builds are plagued with the warning "ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default

Re: Cut a new release?

2018-09-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Robert Boehne wrote: I would be more than happy to cut a release, if only I could remember how. I think the last version I released was 1.5.x - I'll look around but if anyone on the list remembers where the instructions are - please help me out ;) I think that there are

Re: Cut a new release?

2018-09-27 Thread Mike Gran
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:56:20AM -0700, Robert Boehne wrote: > I would be more than happy to cut a release, if only I could remember how. > I think the last version I released was 1.5.x - I'll look around but if > anyone on the list remembers where the instructions are - please help me > out ;)

Re: Cut a new release?

2018-09-27 Thread Robert Boehne
I would be more than happy to cut a release, if only I could remember how. I think the last version I released was 1.5.x - I'll look around but if anyone on the list remembers where the instructions are - please help me out ;) Thanks, Rob Boehne On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:50 AM Samuel Tardieu

Re: Cut a new release?

2018-09-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Samuel Tardieu wrote: Libtool is in need of additional volunteers to serve as maintainers to help catch up on the backlog of patches/issues and prepare another release. My question was solely about tagging and cutting a new release from the current state of the repository

Re: Cut a new release?

2018-09-21 Thread Samuel Tardieu
tches/issues and prepare another > release. > My question was solely about tagging and cutting a new release from the current state of the repository so that patches contributed by volunteers and accepted in the repository already get a more widespread distribution. I understand how getting thro

Re: Cut a new release?

2018-09-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Samuel Tardieu wrote: Would it be possible to cut a formal release? Libtool is in need of additional volunteers to serve as maintainers to help catch up on the backlog of patches/issues and prepare another release. Are you able to volunteer to be a libtool maintainer?

Cut a new release?

2018-09-21 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Hi. Since libtool latest release 3 years ago, some important problems have been patched. In particular, "-fuse-ld=…" is now propagated to the driver when linking. For example, it is not possible to build LLVM modules using libtool on Ubuntu LTS using only released packages. "llvm-config

New release with OSX Yosemite fix?

2014-10-23 Thread Volker Braun
Is there any chance for cutting a new release with the OSX Yosemite version parsing fix? This is going to affect a lot of users, and right now there isn't even a released version of libtools to run reconfigure with. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2014-09/msg2.html

Re: New release with OSX Yosemite fix?

2014-10-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 23 Oct 2014, at 15:06, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any chance for cutting a new release with the OSX Yosemite version parsing fix? This is going to affect a lot of users, and right now there isn't even a released version of libtools to run reconfigure with. http