Re: zsh-4_2-patches branch

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 03:37:51 +0000
Paul Ackersviller <pda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've finished the back-merging of many bug-fixes onto the 4.2 branch,
> as well as most completions (the notable exceptions being 22328 and
> 23479).  The ChangeLog on the branch should match the changes committed
> to the branch, but I wouldn't be surprised by a mistake or two given
> the hundreds of changes I looked at.  I've also sanitized all the
> branch's .distfiles using Peter's check_dist_files script.

(I've moved this onto zsh-users.)

Many thanks for all the work...  it's been about two years since the last
release, so it's a huge task even without disk failures etc.

I've uploaded

ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/development/zsh-4.2.6-dev-1.tar.gz

for anyone tracking the current stable branch to try out.  Since I suspect
people using that branch really just want a straighforward upgrade I'll
probably turn it into 4.2.7 within the next few days.

> If anyone cares, I also have the list of change numbers I looked at,
> but didn't merge.  These were not all just new features, but some fixes
> didn't merge cleanly or compile properly, sometimes only because of
> extra parameters on something like zerr().  I didn't attempt to guess
> at a resolution for these problems, but left the changes out.

Realistically, anything left will probably have to wait for 4.4.

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