From: Borut R. <bor...@si...> - 2007-08-13 19:35:04
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Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 15:34, you wrote: > >> Currently SDCC 2.8.0 release date is not defined yet, as you can see at >> http://sdcc.wiki.sourceforge.net/SDCC+2.8.0+Release. Usually the sdcc >> releases are done once per year, so the next would be in the 1st half of >> 2008. >> >> But the cmake release would be a good excuse to make it earlier. When >> exactly do you plan to release cmake? What is the deadline for sdcc >> release to be included in cmake? >> > > The support files for sdcc are in cmake cvs, which will become version 2.6.0: > http://www.cmake.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Modules/Platform/?root=CMake > CMake 2.6.0 will be released later this year, maybe October. > > The preparations for sdcc release usually begin one month before planned release date by releasing the first release candidate. Usually we have at least 2 release candidates and the final release. Time between them is cca 2 weeks. So let me know about the planned cmake release date at lease 1 month before, so that we can decide about the sdcc release and prepare it in time. > About at the same time there will be a new release of the cmake book, which > will contain cross compiling documentation. Since sdcc is a free cross > compiler and easy to install, it would be a good example (there are not many > e.g. linux cross compilers which have ready-to-use packages). > > Actually the only patch required compared to 2.7.0 is this one: > http://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sdcc/trunk/sdcc/support/librarian/sdcclib.c?r1=4394&r2=4859 > > So a 2.7.1 = 2.7.0 + <that patch> would be good enough for that purpose. > > The current sdcc svn version is already 2.7.3. The next release version will definitely be 2.8.0 (or maybe 3.0.0 if some very big changes will be implemented, which I doubt...) Borut |