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* Progress towards 1.1.4
@ 2014-07-21  5:59 Rich Felker
  2014-07-21 13:31 ` Timo Teras
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2014-07-21  5:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl

A lot of off-the-roadmap stuff has come up lately that's prevented
making progress towards the roadmap goals for 1.1.4: all the problems
I've been fixing with atomics and stat bits on the less-used archs,
patch submissions, dealing with gcc 4.9.1 still being broken, and
fixing various bugs I found in the process working on all of the
above.

As for the roadmap, getting the or1k port merged was a big step. I've
been working with Stefan Kristiansson on support for porting for quite
a while, and now that it's merged and my role is back to just applying
fixes as they come up, I should be able to get back to the other tasks
that are remaining.

The big ones at this point are:

- Adding locale file loading. There's still some "policy" stuff to be
  discussed with regards to what env vars get used, etc. but I think
  the discussions so far have produced enough ideas that the big
  remaining task is actual implementation.

- Merging and hardening the mo-file lookup code I wrote (as discussed
  in the earlier mailing list threads, it should be hardened in case
  untrusted files ever get used) and enabling LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES
  translations.

- Implementing punycode encode/decode (and possibly stringprep? only
  if needed to avoid introducing related security weaknesses) for IDN
  support.

- Solving the long-standing if_nameindex and getifaddrs lack of
  support for unconfigured and v6-only interfaces.

Given other non-musl things I need to get done, I'm not sure if all of
the above will happen by the end of the month. We could push the
release back a bit, or possibly omit one or both of the last two
items, although I know they've been getting pushed back for quite a
while now. I don't want to omit the locale stuff since making a
release with the framework but no functionality looks really bad (the
cost is there, but none of the benefits).

Rich


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2014-07-21  5:59 Progress towards 1.1.4 Rich Felker
2014-07-21 13:31 ` Timo Teras
2014-07-21 14:59   ` if_nameindex, etc. [Re: Progress towards 1.1.4] Rich Felker
2014-07-21 16:09     ` Timo Teras
2014-07-21 16:13       ` Rich Felker
2014-07-21 16:35         ` Timo Teras
2014-07-22  8:58         ` Natanael Copa
2014-07-22  9:04           ` Timo Teras
2014-07-22 13:45           ` Rich Felker

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