Diff file for 3.1.6-test-2 available

Diff file for 3.1.6-test-2 available

[Peter Stephenson]

I have uploaded to ftp.zsh.org the file
  ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/testing/zsh-3.1.6-test-1-test-2.diff.gz
which should propagate its way to your nearest mirror over the next day or
so.

-rw-r--r--  1 mason  zsh    59766 Jul 19 19:51 zsh-3.1.6-test-1-test-2.diff.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 mason  zsh  1251180 Jul 13 00:57 zsh-3.1.6-test-1.tar.gz

To apply this, you need the patch programme as well as the test-1
distribution.  Go to the top level zsh-3.1.6-test-1 directory and do
  gzip -dc /path/to/zsh-3.1.6-test-1-test-2.diff.gz | patch -p0
  touch stamp-h.in

The major differences since test-1 are
  - some missing documentation files and completion functions were restored
    (this is the bulk of the patch)
  - completion evolved some more; compset -q works better; the KEYS zle
    parameter is a user-visible change but shouldn't affect many people;
    compstate[normal_nmatches] appeared; some other functions were updated
  - the logic for cd changed:  it tests for non-existent directories
    with paths like `cd foo/..'; with CHASELINKS it tries harder to use
    the real physical path rather than one with links in it; an option
    CHASEDOTS appeared which forces a .. in a cd path to resolve links if
    CHASELINKS is not set; AUTOCD now handles e.g. `../foo' when the
    current directory is a link and the logical (rather than physical)
    parent has a subdirectory foo, if CHASELINKS is not set (this always
    worked with a proper cd).
  - a few other bug fixes:  nulls in glob patterns incorrectly matched null
    strings and caused mayhem later; a counting problem with HISTNOSTORE
    when there are other things (like precmd) using the history was fixed;
    strcoll() (finally) is not used in character ranges like [A-Z] as this
    had unpleasant side effects in some locales; workaround a gcc bug on
    Digital UNIX 4 with gcc 2.8.1; a small line number fix.

I have only received a couple of pieces of information for Etc/MACHINES.
Please let us (zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk) know if you compile zsh and your
system configuration (including OS version) is not mentioned there, or
there are limitations not mentioned there.

If no major problems turn up, I shall try to release 3.1.6 in a week's
time.  Two things I'd quite like done if possible are
  - a bug in freeing history structures which could potentially cause
    a crash
  - complist could be made to work better with dynamic loading systems
    that don't make symbols in other dynamic modules visible (this looks
    a bit more complex than I first thought because quite a lot of
    symbols are involved).  The only current workaround is to build zle
    into the base shell.


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plus I discovered one in Italy which seems to be an active mirror:

            ftp://ftp.unina.it:/pub/Unix/pkgs/shell/zsh/

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Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy

Re: Diff file for 3.1.6-test-2 available

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

>   - complist could be made to work better with dynamic loading systems
>     that don't make symbols in other dynamic modules visible (this looks
>     a bit more complex than I first thought because quite a lot of
>     symbols are involved).  The only current workaround is to build zle
>     into the base shell.

Hm, I just had a look at this. If I've counted correctly, there are 38 
symbols used. Four of them could reasonably be put into minfo. But
adding 34 pointer variables just to support SunOS 4? And then: other
modules may rely (now or in the future) on the symbols of other
modules on which they depend anyway (after all this is one of the
reasons for the dependency system, isn't it?).

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de