Subject: 5.9 freeze, Windows, regression-fixes and Python 2 drop

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 7/19/21 7:23 PM, Pulkit Goyal wrote:
> The freeze idea sounds good to me since we haven't really spent much
> time fixing the remaining issues related to py3 support and other
> long-standing bugs.
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:02 PM Pierre-Yves David
> <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>> There is a silly, but critical issue that we need¹ to fix before cutting
>> a RC : https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6542
>>
>> I have build an appropriate test and I am working on a fix.
> I was planning to release a RC later today but can wait a day or two
> if the fix gets ready. Else we can get that fixed in 5.9.


Releasing the RC with issue6542 would mean encouraging people to test a 
release that actively eats they data.

We probably do not want to do that.


I poked at a fix and I have something that will only requires minor 
adjustment, I should have a patch tomorrow morning.

Cheers,

-- 

Pierre-Yves David