Re: 0.6.0-rc1 available

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:47:21AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:53:13PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      >      I put a pspp-0.6.0-rc1.tar.gz on alpha.gnu.org in /gnu/pspp.
>      >      This one untars to pspp-0.6.0 and identifies itself as PSPP
>      >      0.6.0.  It passes "make distcheck" here.  If you don't see
>      >      anything too wrong with it, then I'm inclined to upload it to
>      >      ftp.gnu.org as PSPP 0.6.0.
>      >      
>      >      Please let me know what you think.
>      >
>      > Well let's not forget to attend to bugs  #20825 and  #20824 before we
>      > do that final upload.
>      
>      #20825 is "The AUTHORS file needs updating before the next
>      release," but I am not sure what changes should be made.  What do
>      you suggest?
>
> I suggest that we apply this patch:

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> +revisions to other  modules.   
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There's an extra space in there.

>      #20824 is "Update the text in the About dialog before the next
>      release," but the text in the About dialog is partially generated
>      from the AUTHORS file, so fixing #20825 could possibly also fix
>      this.  I do not know whether other changes are needed.
>
> As we've now done some fairly extensive testing, I think that we
> should change the text "This is pre-alpha software. Use at your own
> risk." to something more optimistic.

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Both of these changes sound good to me.  Unless Jason has
comments, please feel free to check in these changes.
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