Re: 2.0 snapshots

[Eric Blake]

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According to Arkadiusz Miskiewicz on 1/6/2007 7:41 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone producing recent m4 2.0 snapshots? 

Not recently.  There are still a number of portability bugs in CVS head
(known core dumps and other security flaws) that need to be fixed before a
2.0 release is possible, not to mention the fact that M4 2.0 depends on
the eventual release of libtool 2.0 first.  I am still plodding through
the list of changes made in 1.4.8 (and this month's coming release of
1.4.9) that I am working on porting to head, but the list is getting much
smaller these days.  But as for a beta-quality snapshot, I think that
sticking 1.9b up on alpha.gnu.org as a progress metric would be
reasonable, not to mention giving the translation team a head's up.

> 
> The only one I know are very old (2002) at 
> http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/

Yes, M4 1.4o is the most recent released tarball of the post-1.4.x
development, and yes, it is quite out of date and rather insecure.
Between 2002 and 2005, not much development occurred.  But in 2006, I did
quite a bit of work, and changed the numbering from 1.4o to 1.9a.

> and the worse thing is that we (PLD) 
> are using these. We would like to use/test never ones so it would be nice to 
> see some recent snap release.
> 

OK, I'll try to put something up in the near future.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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