Re: Preparing for a 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to release 1.6.8 quite soon. > > Given that, if there are issues that need to be resolved that you > think I might overlook, please speak up. Just to let you know: on `powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu', the compilation went fine and the test suite

Re: [PATCH] Per-module reader, take #2

2005-10-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Neil, Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for taking my considerations into account and producing this > update. My gut feel is that I do like this new patch better, but I'd > like to think about it more. I also need to go back and finish my > draft reply to your previous email

Re: 1.6.8 release candidate 0 available for testing.

2005-10-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FAIL: time.test: strftime %Z doesn't return garbage > > Can you pick out the code from that test to see what it does return? > (It's supposed to test that the timezone string passes straight > through.) strfti

Re: 1.6.8 release candidate 0 available for testing.

2005-10-18 Thread Kevin Ryde
[taking this bit separately] Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There's a buglet in the guile info docs in that strftime has a cross > reference to the libc info file, and that would seem to be Linux > specific. You mean gnu-specific of course, strftime probably doesn't go near the kerne

Re: 1.6.8 release candidate 0 available for testing.

2005-10-18 Thread Kevin Ryde
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I didn't find C99 specs for strftime, so I don't know if programs are > required to set tm_zone before calling strftime. The bit about %Z is %Z is replaced by the locale's time zone name or abbreviation, or by no characte