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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes: > I've send out the announcements for 2.2.3 as you might have seen. > Thanks to all who helped. > > I'm pretty sure this release is stable unless I screwed something up > in the last moment. We'll see in a few days. These few days are > exactly the time I'll not be so responsive and available (we're moving > and so I'll not have the Internet connection set up). > > Once I'm back I plan to make a decision on whether a 2.2.4 release is > necessary right away. If not (and this is my expectation) I'll cut > the 2.2 stable branch and the 2.3 development branch will be opened. > >From that point on only bug fixes will go in the stable branch. > > I want to take the opportunity to ask at this time for things you > expect in the 2.3 development. I have so far only one concrete item: > the extended locale model with thread-local locales. This will also > include implementing the standardized thread-local data model. For > those who are interested and missed the announcement of the design > white paper for the thread model, the URL is > > http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/tllocale.ps.bz2 > > It'll be an interesting development since some ABIs are not able to > support this new thread-local data model efficiently in the moment > (PPC, m68k). I guess the plan is to make some drastic changes for PPC > (Geoff knows probably more) but I'm completely clueless about m68k. What I personally like to work on in the near future is: - x86-64 support (partly done, big remaining task is dynamic linking) - cache for gconv modules - Integration of GMP 3.1.1 Uli, All the best for moving, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj
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