[Gpg4win-devel] Go for 2.0.3? (Release 2.0.2-rc2 as 2.0.2?)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010 11:32:08 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2010 12:07:17 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > > * We see some https://issues.kolab.org/issue4302 (Kleo keylisting hangs
> > > after using Kleo for a while (killing gpgsm helps)) and we do not know
> > > if this is more fequent with 2.0.2rc2 compared to 2.0.1.
> > > Does somebody see those hangs with 2.0.1, too?
> >
> > As you know, we did the 2.0.2 release. Frequency of this defect to show
> > is comparitively low and the advantages outweight the drawbacks.
> >
> > However it seems that we have found a source for the 4302 hang defect,
> > so we need to decide if we should do a 2.0.3. (The code is in trunk, we
> > need to see if 2.0.2+patches would fully resolve the issue.)
>
> As you can see from the issue4302, the current patch we have makes the hang
> less likely, but it is not completely gone. So what speaks for releasing
> 2.0.3 with the patch is that 2.1.0 is a bit away. On the other hand, the
> checks for is_socket() that are introduced by the patch could potentially
> resolve the hang completely if we find the remaining places where we need
> to apply the same technique.

And there is one more possible defect with a modern Outlook 2003 version 
on XP that Emanuel is going to test to see if 2.0.2+patch has it.

Bernhard

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