Re: new snapshot (2.9.10)

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 2:36 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > Are there any pending changes that are important enough to prevent
> > making a new snapshot?  If any major problems show up in 2.9.10, we
> > can make another one soon.  I'd like to start trying to stablize
> > things for a 3.0 release.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > jwe
> The only thing I have in the pipe are the changes to the FAQ texinfo
> mark-up and the rand test for big/little endian (see my recent post)...
> If it is urgent to have a release I'd suggest applying by patch to
> rand.cc, it will work on little-endian machines correctly, but fail on
> big-endian machines. We can then later address the issue correctly by
> one of the means in my recent message.

I'm hoping to simplify the Poisson generator and make it faster,
but this is stalled until the death march at work is over.  Can
I get this in after 2.10 but before 3.0?

        - Paul