Re: mc-4.6.1 release?

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Roland Illig wrote:

> I would like mc-4.6.1 to be released soon. The broken pipe issue won't get 
> away in the next few days, so there's no reason to wait for it. I have a 
> still uncommitted patch which fixes the error message to be not as cryptic as 
> before.
>
> http://www.schlechte-software.de/pub/mc-patches/mcview-sigpipe.patch

It's unfortunate because it will be perceived as a regression, even though 
the code in 4.6.0 was incorrect.

> After the release I would like to have an "unstable" branch where I (and 
> everyone else) may put his favourite patches. From there we can commit the 
> patches to the "stable" branch as soon as they are considered stable. I think 
> this will speed up development and make it more clear which patches have 
> already been applied and which ones still have to be checked. But I don't 
> dare to suggest this before the release of mc-4.6.1. ;)

OK, we need some testing before the release.  maint/mctest gives some 
warnings on Fedora Core 2.  From test-2.err:

../../vfs/mcserv.c: In function `mc_pam_auth':
../../vfs/mcserv.c:782: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from 
pointer target type
../../vfs/mcserv.c:783: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from 
pointer target type
../../src/cons.saver.c:52: warning: no previous prototype for 
`send_contents'
../../src/cons.saver.c:105: warning: no previous prototype for `die'

We also should test FreeBSD and Cygwin.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin