Dear Bruno, On 3/5/23 21:59, Bruno Haible wrote:
I would say, it's time to make a release.
Fine, let's do it! (I was just wondering about when the last tag was placed in CLisp...)
In my understanding - It would be good to upgrade to Autoconf 2.71 and Libtool 2.4.7, since these releases include a large number of fixes.
That should happen automatically with what's in git, I think.
- Then I offer to spend a day or two testing the thing on the current set of platforms, with current compilers (from Linux/arm over Solaris 11 to Android, with g++ 12 and clang 15, etc.)
Good idea. Let's first see what the current status is. FWIW, Debian's status is at <https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=cln> where architectures hppa, sparc, sparc64, arm, armel, and armhf were built with -DNO_ASM for various reasons. For arm*, this should not be necessary any more, I dare to hope.
"just tell people to build off from git" increases the installation effort, compared to a release tarball. Distros like Debian also prefer a release tarball, I think?
Well, personally, with my distro maintainer hat on, I do appreciate clearly defined releases. -richy.