Re: FYI - branch-1_4 cleanup

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

Apologies for not having looked at any of this properly yet:  I've just
got back from a long weekend break, and will be away again from Thursday
morning through Monday morning!

Eric Blake wrote:
> Gary, with this patch, I think I have now covered all outstanding bugs
> that were in the way of a 1.4.5 release.

By (brief) inspection, all of what you have applied recently looks good
from here.  Excellent even! :-)  I'd like to spend a little time looking
over everything more carefully, and run some big package builds with
various autoconf releases using this candidate before we make the
release proper.

> Are we ready to start the release process?

Pending the above, certainly.

> What would you like me to do to help with that?

You have shepherded the release to where it is.  If you'd like to do
the whole thing, *I* would be happy to help *you*!  If you'd rather
I roll the thing up, that's fine too.  Until I've had time to look at
everything properly late next week, feel free to make an alpha release,
and upload to alpha.gnu.org.  You can probably follow the instructions
in HACKING from CVS libtool without much modification should you wish
to do that.

> One
> thing I plan on doing is running the autoconf-2.59d testsuite using the
> candidate m4 1.4.5, to ensure no regressions.  I also have a (growing)
> list of things to forward port to CVS head, although that is independent
> of a release schedule.

Indeed.  And if you get bored of waiting for the end of next week, I'd
be delighted for you to start on the patch ports :-D

Cheers,
        Gary.

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