[Sablevm-developer] SableVM 1.1.1 is there - no announcements yet

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

Hi Etienne, hi everyone,

Tags for 1.1.1 have been made. I don't expect any changes to them, but
if somebody has a good reason for it - speak up now! The dist tarballs
I made (and tested) are available at:

	http://devel.sablevm.org/download/1.1.1/

There are two things remaining to be done:
1) Etienne builds his tarballs from tags and uploads to SF and devel.s.o
2) Announcements are made.

I think we should send the announce here and to classpath ML _now_, and
do the NEWS update. But sablevm-announce, freshmeat etc. should be
postponed till ex. tuesday. Here's why: FWCS normal people are generally
trying to get rest during the weekend, then mondays are always quite
busy so tuesday seems like a good idea to remind them about SableVM.
Additionally Debian packages should be uploaded and available from
mirrors by then. [*]

And if something was severly broken we could release 1.1.2 before
too many people tried the broken version.

BTW: I've just noticed that we haven't followed the policy of bugfree,
that is, we haven't fixed the bugs in bugfree, but only in staging.
I think mostly about this exec()/waitFor() bug. After applying
this one-liner fix we could have also released bugfix development
release 1.1.1, just with this change. Maybe not just yet, but I think
we should make sure that bugfree is actually bugfree and also
make bugfix releases as needed [**].

What do you think?

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski

[*] We're also looking for somebody to prepare RPM packages. I have done
some RPMs years ago and I have some preliminary sablevm.spec to start
with, so if there was somebody willing to _try_ it - please contact me
or the mailing list. There's also an idea of LSB-compatible RPM which
might be even more interesting, for some (and I am willing to help too).
It can even be realized on a Debian system (packages are there).

[**] I think I need to find a faster machine to do "make dist" on
Classpath. It takes almost an hour on my old, crappy machine...

PS: David, what's your standing on the SableJIT snapshot release?
Looks like there might be a bit more time to do it and still synchronize
with the main 1.1.1 announcements. Most probably I won't be able to do
any new release in april, so it might be the only such occasion.
-- 
Grzegorz B. Prokopski <ga...@de...>
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