On 09/12/13 08:39, Tim Parenti wrote:

> it would be quite prudent to summarize specifically what changes
> are (and are not) made by this changeset

Yes, although I normally write a change summary when preparing a
release and publish it as part of the release announcement, the
proposed change is large enough that it'd be helpful to circulate
a draft of the change summary now.  Here is a draft for the
current set of proposed changes, which is:

https://github.com/eggert/tz/compare/8f10e5c...738ad89

[...]

  Changes affecting code internals

    zic -c now runs way faster on 64-bit hosts when given large numbers.

    zic now uses vfprintf to allocating and freeing some memory.

    tzselect now computes the list of continents from the data,
    rather than have it hard-coded.

    Minor changes pacify GCC 4.7.3 and GCC 4.8.1.
[...]