From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1512 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2011 14:12:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 29960 Received: (qmail 10671 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2011 14:12:02 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at csr.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:11:17 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson To: "Zsh Hackers' List" Subject: Next release Message-ID: <20111209141117.52c1e37a@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> Organization: Cambridge Silicon Radio X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.101.11.233] X-Scanned-By: MailControl 7.6.5 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.71.0.134 As 4.3 seems to be pretty stable I'd like to release 5.0 shortly without any further major changes. The release number won't change until I actually do that --- the policy is that version numbers always increment, so 5.0_mumble comes after 5.0 --- although nearer the time when everything looks ready I may bump the number to 4.99-test-X for the final test releases just to indicate the intention. The only significant thing to do for this is rework the source documentation (NEWS, release notes, etc.) to show changes since 4.2 rather than within 4.3. If anyone thinks they can make a good attempt at this, they're welcome. Otherwise, I will try to make a start on that. It would also be useful to document any bugs or major unexpected restrictions that aren't already documented. I'm aware of a couple of weak areas in completion: correspondence classes don't handle multibyte characters, and nested quoted completion where the contents of the quotes are interpreted non-trivial (e.g. as a command line by a call to another shell) are buggy. This is *not* a call for feature requests. Any undocumented derogations from POSIX behaviour can be added to the FAQ. If you think there's anything significant left to do, it would be a good time either to do it or try to persuade someone else (good luck with that). -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom More information can be found at www.csr.com. Follow CSR on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CSR_PLC and read our blog at www.csr.com/blog