libXt release

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:08:21AM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 4:57 AM Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 08:08:42PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:43:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > | From: "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com>
> > > > | To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey at his.com>
> > > > | Cc: "xorg-devel" <xorg-devel at lists.x.org>
> > > > | Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:47:04 PM
> > > > | Subject: libXt release
> > > >
> > > > | Hi Thomas,
> > > > |
> > > > | I'd like to do a tarball release of libXt since there are now quite a
> > > > | few commits since 1.1.5, released in 2015. Are you okay with me making
> > > > | a 1.2.0 release now, or is there anything else you would want to get
> > > > | into a new release?
> > > >
> > > > I've been working on some scripts to check for
> > > > breakage in the specification document - might have some fixes there.
> > > >
> > > > I'll review the current state on the weekend, to give better advice.
> > >
> > > I think it's in good shape.  Because of the interface change (using
> > > const), I was going to suggest that it should be 1.2.0
> >
> > I added a merge request for "1.2.0", which I'm testing,
> > should be done tomorrow early (in case someone finds an issue).
> 
> Thanks. Are you familiar with the Xorg release scripts [0]? There's a
> wiki page at [1] that has instructions.
> 
> If for any reason you have trouble making the release or uploading the
> tarball, let me know and I'll be happy to handle it.
> 
> [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/

hmm - in a quick check, there's something amiss with the distcheck step
because it's not picking up the right path to the makestrs utility
(or failing to build it in parallel, etc).  That's with my Debian/testing
machine.

I'm investigating that...

Seeing the other mail, I expect some problem uploading the tarball.

But that's later :-)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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