Hi Philipp,

On 3/20/18, Philipp Klaus Krause <p...@spth.de> wrote:
> In the past, for a few weeks after a SDCC release, there usually were
> quite some bug reports coming. People migrated to the new release and
> reported regressions. SDCC 3.7.0 was quite unusual in the high number of
> changes since the previous release, so I would have expected lots of bug
> reports.
>
> However, this is not what happened. Actually, I didn't see any increased
> activity on the bug tracker at all. I wonder why. My guesses are:
>
> 1) Few regressions. SDCC regression testing covererage gets better all
> the time, so potential regression are caught early and don'T make it
> into releases.
>
> 2) SDCC users are still using 3.6.0 instead of 3.7.0. If this is the
> case, there is again a question of why. 3.7.0 was a source-code only
> release. Did that prevent some from moving on to 3.6.0? Any other
> reasons to stay with 3.6.0?
>

I just noticed that Debian still using an even older SDCC version,
even in the unstable repository:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/electronics/sdcc

BR,

Alan

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