[CLN-list] CLN repository, the fork, and all that

[Richard B. Kreckel]

Hello,

Here is some information about the immediate future.

I've traded the CVS repository for a git repository. The CLN web page 
informs about how to obtain the current sources and how to build them.

Actually, that is a clone of the CVS-to-git conversion done by Alexei 
Sheplyakov, who announced it as a fork on this list a while ago. Alexei 
has explained that he intends to continue to contribute to CLN. 
Technically, he will do so by sending requests to pull from his 
repository. After all, that is how git is designed to work. In this 
spirit, all his patches to make CLN less dependent from GCC are already 
in the current repository. Kudos to Alexei for making this possible.

Everyone is invited to give the current version a test. Please report 
any problems you may find. Please send reports to this list. Better yet, 
send patches!  ;-)

My immediate plan is to prepare a release at around the time GCC-4.4 is 
  released. Due to some minor header problems, CLN-1.2.2 won't compile 
on that new compiler version. Since Alexei's work made changes to the 
ABI, the new release will have to increment the soname version.

Cheers
    -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
<http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>