[hobbit] Release date, stability of 4.3 trunk

[Henrik Stoerner]

In <48ED49C2.8020801 at elyograg.org> Shawn Heisey <hobbit at elyograg.org> writes:

>I'm wondering whether there is any projected release date for version 
>4.3.  Now that our benevolent dictator has returned, I hope there will 
>be increased development towards making what's there release-worthy.

No date, but I am working towards it.

>I downloaded the newest trunk version of hobbitmon this morning, used 
>the debian build directory to make packages, and installed it on a test 
>server running debian etch.  As you probably know, it's got some bugs.  
>Although I have some experience with C code, I'm not a programmer.  In 
>recent years all my programming has been system administration scripts 
>in Perl.

Bug reports are very welcome.

>There are tons of compiler warnings, at least with the compiler I'm 
>using.  Presumably most of them are not true problems, the data types 
>and code just need a little massaging to bring things in line.  Do you 
>already know what's causing most of them and how to fix it, or would you 
>like some help tracking them down?

>gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)


I know about the flurry of signed/unsigned warnings, and have no intention
of fixing those. I'll probably add a "-Wno-pointer-sign" option to the
Linux CFLAGS setting (and the other Makefile's that use gcc). You can't really
fix those, since the system header files won't let you do it correctly.


Regards,
Henrik