Re: printf -u "$fd"?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/22/24 12:32 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 3:06 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > On 5/21/24 11:14 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 9:01 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > > > On 5/21/24 6:17 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I was wondering what the relationship between the devel and master
> > > > > branches was.
> > > >
> > > > No mystery: the devel branch captures ongoing development, gets the latest
> > > > bug fixes, and is where new features appear. The master branch is for
> > > > stable releases.
> > >
> > > But the devel branch won't get changes for bash versions beyond what's
> > > in alpha right now?
> >
> > I'm genuinely curious how you got that from what I said, especially since
> > devel has gotten changes since I released bash-5.3-alpha.
>
> Changes I assumed would make it into master while master is bash-5.3.
> It sounded like you didn't want to implement anything in devel right
> now that wasn't going to make it into bash-5.3. I probably didn't
> phrase that very well.

I'm not planning on including any additional new features in bash-5.3
beyond what's in alpha now. If I do some work on new features -- I don't
usually, I try to spend my time on bug fixes and release engineering --
I'll do it in a private branch that doesn't get merged until after
bash-5.3 is released.

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