Re: [Diffutils-devel] diffutils release

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 6:21 AM, Martin Liška <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've just tried to fix diffutils in openSUSE buildservice and noticed that 
>> you did quite many changes
>> in order to have it working with GCC 7. I guess a standard release is 
>> planned in August this year, right?
>> May I ask you how to create a release tarball from your git repository? I 
>> will maybe use current HEAD.
>
> This should do it, assuming you have all of the prerequisites (tested
> by running bootstrap):
>
>   ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && make dist
>
> We are due for a release much sooner than that. When would be good for you?

I've just made a pre-release snapshot of the diffutils.
Please give that a workout.