From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24777 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2007 23:35:52 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Mar 2007 23:35:52 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 10958 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2007 20:49:06 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 27 Mar 2007 20:49:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 17408 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2007 20:49:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 23243 Received: (qmail 17397 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2007 20:49:03 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 27 Mar 2007 20:49:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 10685 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2007 20:49:03 -0000 Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (81.103.221.47) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 27 Mar 2007 20:48:59 -0000 Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20070327204857.TLEZ2951.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:48:57 +0100 Received: from pwslaptop.csr.com ([81.107.47.85]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20070327204857.EOBO17393.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@pwslaptop.csr.com> for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:48:57 +0100 Received: from pwslaptop.csr.com (pwslaptop.csr.com [127.0.0.1]) by pwslaptop.csr.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l2RKlrX0005081 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:47:54 +0100 Message-Id: <200703272047.l2RKlrX0005081@pwslaptop.csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Updates to zsh-4_2-patches branch In-Reply-To: Message from Paul Ackersviller of "Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:20:48 -0000." <20070327202048.GA4134@sverige> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:47:53 +0100 Paul Ackersviller wrote: > I promised to do this months ago, but didn't get far over the course > of the winter... Excuses aside, I've been hard at it for the past > week or two, and have gotten up to about the middle of last year in > merging trunk changes onto the branch. Thanks for the work, it's very useful. > How comprehensive is the test suite, and are there any major gotchas? The test suite is good at stuff related to scripting and syntax, moderately good but rather incomplete at the low levels of completion and line editing, and poor at things which are only testable interactively like job control. > One area I could use help or at least guidance on is files in Src/Zle/. > I've merged in only a few changes there, when it appeared to be > non-multibyte-related, but is it better to try leaving that completely > alone? I fear a few multibyte changes that don't belong mat have crept > in, but I'll see how testing goes. Zle has changed so much that it might well be better to leave anything alone that isn't obviously a standalone fix for a specific problem that applies cleanly. We've made various tweaks to simplify interfaces both internally and to related parts of the main shell such as quoting to make adding multibyte support easier; these aren't generally bug fixes and don't need applying. > In terms of documenting what I've done, is there any value in sending > all the change numbers to this list? There will be very many, so I'm > thinking those numbers would better go into the change comments for the > individual cvs revisions. It would be fine if they just appeared in the ChangeLog on the branch. -- Peter Stephenson Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/