From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3456 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Thinking about release Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:44:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20130626014407.GN29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20130613012517.GA5859@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372211061 14515 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2013 01:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:44:21 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3460-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Jun 26 03:44:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UremU-0002q7-77 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:44:22 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32358 invoked by uid 550); 26 Jun 2013 01:44:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 32350 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2013 01:44:21 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130613012517.GA5859@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3456 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:25:17PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been mentioned that we're overdue for a release, and it looks > like we have a fair amount of new stuff since the last release. Major > changes so far: > > - Accepting \n in dynamic linker path file This was buggy and apparently nobody (even the person who requested it?!) ever tested it. Just fixed it. Could possibly use some further review still to make sure it handles odd path files well. > I think the ether.h functions could definitely still make it in for > this release too. Just committed these, almost the exact versions Strake submitted. Apologies for taking so long! Thank you Strake. > inet_makeaddr, etc. could probably also be merged. I just wrote a new one based on the man page so as not to pull in more 3-clause BSD license mess. It's untested so hopefully it does the right thing. Just committed it. > Most of the other major items left on the agenda since the last > release are probably not going to happen right away unless there's a > volunteer to do them (zoneinfo, cpuset/affinity, string functions > cleanup, C++ ABI matching, ARM-optimized memcpy) and one, the ld.so > symlink direction issue, still requires some serious discussion and > decision-making. I think the status on all these issues remains the same. Rich