2.2.3 release and what follows

[Andreas Jaeger]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> I've send out the announcements for 2.2.3 as you might have seen.
> Thanks to all who helped.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this release is stable unless I screwed something up
> in the last moment.  We'll see in a few days.  These few days are
> exactly the time I'll not be so responsive and available (we're moving
> and so I'll not have the Internet connection set up).
> 
> Once I'm back I plan to make a decision on whether a 2.2.4 release is
> necessary right away.  If not (and this is my expectation) I'll cut
> the 2.2 stable branch and the 2.3 development branch will be opened.
> >From that point on only bug fixes will go in the stable branch.
> 
> I want to take the opportunity to ask at this time for things you
> expect in the 2.3 development.  I have so far only one concrete item:
> the extended locale model with thread-local locales.  This will also
> include implementing the standardized thread-local data model.  For
> those who are interested and missed the announcement of the design
> white paper for the thread model, the URL is
> 
>   http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/tllocale.ps.bz2
> 
> It'll be an interesting development since some ABIs are not able to
> support this new thread-local data model efficiently in the moment
> (PPC, m68k).  I guess the plan is to make some drastic changes for PPC
> (Geoff knows probably more) but I'm completely clueless about m68k.

What I personally like to work on in the near future is:

- x86-64 support (partly done, big remaining task is dynamic linking)
- cache for gconv modules
- Integration of GMP 3.1.1

Uli, All the best for moving,
Andreas
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