Re: [Edbrowse-dev] version 3.6.0

[Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>]

Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:

> Chris maybe you want to maintain a list of items to close before new version.

Yes, great idea.  I don't think we're ready yet.  This is a nice list;
my comments are below.

> Will they be releasing an official version that we are comfortable with?
> If not, how can we build and bundle our software with version 5.1.15

This is a big sticking point for a new edbrowse release.  I don't know
what Geoff's release plans are, but that's a discussion we can have
sometime soonish, I suppose.  We're still hammering out tidy issues.
If we end up bundling our own Tidy 5, my job is to make this painless
for distributors.

> Are we still getting seg faults or other serious problems?

Yes we are, but things are starting to slow down.
It needs a lot more exercise.  You know what might be helpful here?  I
could make some "bleeding edge" static builds of the latest code, and
then we could put out a call for testers on the command-line list.
Not having to do a song and dance to build all of this software from git
would make life easier for some would-be bug hunters.
Maybe I'll get to the point where I keep two sets of statics: one that
is "stable", and the other that is rebuilt from the latest code as often
as possible.

> Maybe have js off by default in the first windows port.

Yes, this is fine with me.

> but will it be feasible to maintain an edbrowse.exe along with our statics,

Sure it will, but I need someone to build it for me and to keep the
Windows build in sync with everything else.

-- Chris