Re: 7.1.4

Tom,

> > I'm not sure, I'm just thinking about the few bugs which have trickled
> > through about 7.1.3, and Tom's email a while ago saying that heaps of
> > the bugs which had been fixed were 7.1.3 ones.
>
> Trouble is, we mostly haven't bothered to back-patch the fixes.  Putting
> out a 7.1.4 would involve going through the CVS logs, figuring out which
> entries represented fixes for old bugs that deserve back-patching, and
> then applying the patch (possibly after changes to get it to apply
> against the older code).  This'd be a huge amount of work --- cvs2cl
> reports more than a thousand separate commits since last September, so
> even trolling the log would be a significant effort.  Testing the end
> result would be a problem too...

This is nice. But I hope that you are agree that it is not a good idea
to switch production system to RC1 version. A bug I mentioned is a real
problem. Is it possible that it will be addressed? I could do this myself,
but as far as I remember the fix was done by you, and was quite large.

--
Denis