0.33.x, rewrite, 0.34?

[Greg Troxel]

I'm curious about the future. main and the rewrite branch now deal with
script(1) on various systems better (thanks to Rob for lots of offlist
help/debugging, and merging the patch we ended up with), so I've been
getting back on track running tests.

I wonder then:

How soon do we expect to merge the tmp/review/rewrite branch to main?

How close are we to starting to trial main as future 0.34.0?

Is 0.33.x going to get updates, or is 0.34 close enough?


The only thing I'm really aware of that is missing on 0.33.x is:

b3563db9 (upstream/master, upstream/main, upstream/HEAD, origin/main, origin/HEAD, main) with-tty: use OSTYPE everywhere and test for -e behavior
2e4b6afc with-tty: document variants; support NetBSD
2c639476 with-tty: reject netbsd for now (upstream issue)

tests on macOS 13 are troubled on that branch due to script detection
issues, but there's no point debugging it without the on-main fixes.
I can prepare a branch with conflicts dealt with if that's helpful. My
first attempt at conflict resolution doesn't seem right.
But, if we're heading for 0.34 soon, it may not be worth it.

[Rob Browning]

Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> writes:

> I wonder then:
>
> How soon do we expect to merge the tmp/review/rewrite branch to main?
>
> How close are we to starting to trial main as future 0.34.0?

Soon, I think -- I don't believe anything else is planned. I'll
probably merge it in the next week or two, if nothing comes up.

> Is 0.33.x going to get updates, or is 0.34 close enough?

Sure, "as needed", but the main focus is definitely shifting to 0.34+,
i.e. the bar for 0.33.x will be (notably) higher, assuming 0.34 settles
well enough.

> b3563db9 (upstream/master, upstream/main, upstream/HEAD, origin/main, origin/HEAD, main) with-tty: use OSTYPE everywhere and test for -e behavior
> 2e4b6afc with-tty: document variants; support NetBSD
> 2c639476 with-tty: reject netbsd for now (upstream issue)

Right, I might cherry-pick those later, but if I forget, feel free to
remind me. I might also make another 0.33.x release in a while since
it's been requested for Debian stable (it'd be good to have the changes
since 0.33.7 in stable).

Thanks
--
Rob Browning
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