Re: Schedule for new libtool release

On Tuesday, 2016-05-03 07:42:46 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to make new GNU libtool release v2.4.8 soon.  There is still
> some time, but please ping for important patches which should not be
> missed.
> 
> In the meantime, I'll try to process an alpha 2.4.7 version for two major
> reasons, (a) this would be my first release and I need to get familiar
> with the process, and (b) there are some non-trivial changes in git which
> would be better to have tested rather sooner than later (alpha sounds like
> more attractive option for testing than git).

Hey Pavel, any news on this?

It has now been over 2 years since the last release, and since most people
only use the released versions, they can't make use of the fixes in master,
several of which are quite important (see [1] for instance).

Cheers,
  Eric

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53416


> 
> Cheers,
> Pavel

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