I have just put a second release candidate for 7.1 in
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Testing/pcre-7.1-RC2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Testing/pcre-7.1-RC2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Testing/pcre-7.1-RC2.zip
There are also detached signatures in that directory, should you want to
check them.
The following changes have happened since -RC1:
1. Craig's "Failed" problem with the tests *was* a bug - in the testing
scheme - in pcretest, in fact, recently introduced. Now fixed.
2. Removed INSTALL from extra_dist, as it is automatically included.
3. I have *not* changed the names of the CleanTxt, Detrail, and 132html
scripts - but I note that PrepareRelease is in fact a shell script. :-)
4. Tidied up spaces after full stops in configure.ac. I have left the
French spacing in C++ files, since it looks consistent and it won't
be me that maintains them.
5. Moved Index.html to doc/index.html.src, put a comment inside it, and
changed the script that uses it.
6. Moved maint/Tech.Notes to HACKING, and arranged for it to be
distributed.
7. Renamed !compile.txt and !linklib.txt as makevp-compile and
makevp-linklib and modified makevp.bat appropriately.
8. Some minor updates to wording in pcreapi.3.
9. Re-jigged the way the character tables are done, following discussion
here. There is now a distributed file called pcre_chartables.c.dist,
which is a set of ASCII tables. By default, this is copied to
pcre_chartables.c at "make" time. However, if --enable-rebuild-chartables
is used with "configure", the previous method is used: dftables.c is
compiled and run in order to create pcre_chartables.c.
10. Updated various documentation files to accommodate all these
changes.
Not related to the release: I have tidied up the Contrib directory on
the FTP site by archiving everything except those that Daniel thought
were useful into a tarball whose name begins "archive".
What now needs doing before a real 7.1 release? I have the following:
. Check with Daniel on the Cmake support - how much needs doing there?
. Somebody who knows about Windows needs to check out the NON-UNIX-USE
file, especially the section entitled OUT-OF-DATE COMMENTS ABOUT WIN32
BUILDS.
. ... and, of course, any comments that come back on the -RC2
distribution.
I am now going to start work on creating a script that does a whole
sequence of "configure, compile, test" operations, with different
configuration options. I don't intend this as part of the distribution,
but for use by maintainers.
Philip
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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
