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Re: [bug-libunistring] 0.9.10 release?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [bug-libunistring] 0.9.10 release?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:43:06 +0200
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Hi Daiki,

> Although I agree that this build issue affects many systems, I am not
> sure if this is worth an immediate new release, because:
> - these days, most people install this library as a distribution
>   package, in particular if they are using glibc based systems
> - since the above fixes only touch *.[ch] files, distributions could
>   easily patch their packages without bootstrapping
> 
> So, my preference is to deliver it as part of potentially significant
> run-time changes

Well, now we have a significant change: The documented functions for
case-mapping of substrings [1] were unusable because some functions were
not included in the library.

Now it should be worth making a new release?

Bruno

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/manual/libunistring.html#Case-mappings-of-substrings




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