Re: commits for possible 5.9.1

[dana <dana@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed 29 Apr 2026, at 10:46, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> In that case I (or someone) would need to finish applying the five (?)
> patches Philippe has already produced, and we should just go right
> ahead to 5.10 and not call it 5.9.1.

if name refs are (truly) close to final, or if we wanted to release
everything *but* name refs, i agree, we should go straight to 5.10

can we get a brief summary of what we need to be happy with name refs?
do those remaining patches answer all of the open questions? it got too
esoteric for me so i haven't been able to follow it

if we did do a 5.9.1, my thinking, and i believe oliver's, was that it
would be bug fixes and build/portability improvements only, as previous
point releases have been

dana