Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

Hi Eric,

Eric Blake <[email protected]> writes:

> I would love some assistance in the effort, even if it is as simple as
> curating a list of ALL commits to branch-1.4 and branch-1.6 since the
> two REALLY diverged (warning: back then, I was not using 'git
> cherry-pick -x' to identify when a patch was applied to one branch
> after appearing on another; and order of patches applied differs
> between the branch, so it is not just a linear effort).  A possible
> starting point might be commits around Nov 2007; commit ac884556
> titled "Stage 1:..." was the start of my efforts to implement a MUCH
> faster parser for m4 1.6; or maybe the search needs to go back even
> further.

Sounds similar to what I did with the Python gnulib-tool implementation.

Happy to help with m4 if so.

Collin