From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Meyering Subject: Re: new snapshot available: sed-4.7.13-3c1e Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:27:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: <877e24v4nw.fsf@gnu.org> <878smitgrb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ipHvn-0001c5-Ju for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:27:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ipHvm-0004gh-Ml for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:27:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878smitgrb.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Sed Devel On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:59 AM Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Jim Meyering writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:08 AM Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >> > >> Jim Meyering writes: > >> > >> > It's been a year since the preceding release, so this feels overdue. > >> > Please give it a whirl and let us know how it goes. > >> > >> Builds fine on GNU Guix master. Log attached. > > > > Thanks for testing/reporting. > > You're welcome. Thinking about this, it only makes sense for essential > core/bootstrap packages, especcialy GNU packages such as SED to check > them on Guix before a release. This was kind of a coincidence and > personal interest; I am wondering if it would make sense to do this > more structurally, and add make, awk, coreutils, ... for example. If you want to test diffutils, gzip and grep prereleases, I won't complain. Most of us announce prereleases to platform-testers@gnu.org . > >> Would you be willing to also provide a GZIP compressed version of future > >> sed releases too? > > > > Done via the attached. > > Beautiful, thank you. By replying with a patch you make me realise that > I could have helped by writing it for you when making the request. Oh > well. I don't see it in git yet, is that right? Just pushed.