[Privoxy-devel] Release date for Privoxy 3.0.30

[Lee]

On 1/17/21, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote on 2021-01-16:
>
>> On 1/16/21, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
>> > I'd like to release Privoxy 3.0.30 stable in the near
>> > future, preferably around the end of the month.
>> >
>> > Would this work for everyone?
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> > It would be mainly a bug fix release.
>>
>> What do you think of a stable _and_ beta release of Privoxy 3.0.30 for
>> Windows?
>> Stable would be built the same way as 3.0.29 for Windows and beta
>> would have the external, current PCRS library, brotli and mbed-tls?
>
> I like the idea of providing a Windows package with current PCRE, brotli
> and mbedTLS very much but would prefer a different classification as we
> already use "beta" for Privoxy's CODE_STATUS.
>
> I also suspect that "beta" would discourage users as they might
> assume that the "stable" package would be more current.
>
> Maybe call it something like Privoxy-with-https-inspection
> to make the main difference more obvious and encourage testing.
>
> HTTPS inspection is already marked as experimental in the
> documentation so adding an additional classification for
> the packaging probably isn't necessary.
>
> Do you intend to build and package PCRE, brotli and mbedTLS
> yourself or do you rely on cygwin binaries or something else?

I have to build the libraries myself.  I don't see a mingw cross-build
library for brotli or mbedtls and the mingw pcre library was built as
shared only, so I can't use it if I'm using
  ./configure --enable-static-linking
when building Privoxy.

Lee