Branching for 2.4

[Rainer Müller]

On 2016-12-10 13:34, Joshua Root wrote:
> I think master is in pretty good shape now to branch off release-2.4.
> Releasing a beta could then follow shortly.
> 
> Are there any important or low-risk changes that should get in beforehand?

Interrupting with Ctrl-C will now often throw the exception up to the
port client, where this will then generate a huge stacktrace. This could
be quite confusing and is different from the behavior in 2.3 where
port(1) just stopped without any output.

I don't think this output will help much. We should catch the errorCode
{POSIX SIG SIGINT} in the port client around process_cmd and
process_command_files and hide this stacktrace unless debug was enabled.

Rainer