Sept. 11, 2013
12:28 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, at 5:55, Paul Eggert wrote:
We need to release a new version soon, because of Fiji.
I did further testing and it appears that the recent changes to add meta-information to the zic output won't fly, because they're incompatible with the GNU C library on Ubuntu 12.04. So we need to rethink that feature. There's no rush to introduce it, so let's omit it from the next release.
We're getting stuck on ways to compatibly extend the current format. What about adding another file in a new location, and maintaining the current output as a backwards-compatibility thing? It would also allow for a chance to clean things up like adding isstd/isgmt to the main 'ttinfo' structure, and no longer maintaining two copies of everything.