On Aug 25, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Benedikt Morbach
benedikt.morb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello list,
would it be possible to cut a new popt release to make life for
downstream distributions a little bit easier?
Here is popt-1.17 staged for release:
http://yum.jbj.org/pub/centos6/SRPMS.i386/popt-1.17-1.src.rpm
http://yum.jbj.org/pub/centos6/SRPMS.i386/popt-1.17-1.src.rpm
Dunno when the code will be run through a test/release
cycle, that’s a fair amount of work.
I’m not sure how a popt release helps downstream distros,
the major issue with popt is that nothing ever really changes.
According to [1] the last release was done more than 4 years ago and
there weren't many exciting features added in the meantime (at least as
far as I can see) the little fixes do add up, especially the ones to the
build-system and tests.
And there aren’t many exciting features in popt-1.17 either. There
are lots of configuration changes for portability, but the underlying
popt code hasn’t changed much this century.
There is some experimental support for a Bloom filter data type
as well as an RPN calculator, neither of which will find much
application use doing CLI option processing.
73 de Jeff
