1.6 release?

[Weissmann Markus]

On 05.11.2007, at 22:16, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> 	Hey everyone!
>
> 	It's very pleasing to see the amount of work that has gone into  
> base since our last release, but the negative side of that is that  
> our current code delta between trunk and the last release branch is  
> huge. Therefore I propose we make a 1.6 release with a new release  
> branch from scratch, cut off from trunk ToT.
>
> 	For that to happen, it would be nice to have some input on the  
> current state of trunk:
>
> -) does any developer in particular plan to include new features/ 
> improvements in the near future? If so, do these entail any obvious  
> instability we should account for?
>   *) Markus, anything else we should look forward to in your recent  
> slew of build stage related improvements?
>

Nothing too spectacular: The most significant additions in configure/ 
build are Anders' parallel build jobs and a bunch of configure- 
options for more comfortable access to often-used environment variables.
This all has been done very conservative: The configure-options code  
is very straight and the parallel build jobs are off by default. We  
could switch the default to auto in a later release so the number of  
parallel build threads is oriented at the number of cores of the  
build machine, but not for 1.6.


-Markus

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Markus W. Weissmann
http://www.mweissmann.de/