* 3.1.6 status @ 1999-07-23 8:03 Peter Stephenson 1999-07-23 14:38 ` Vin Shelton 1999-07-23 18:58 ` Hype (was Re: 3.1.6 status) Bruce Stephens 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Peter Stephenson @ 1999-07-23 8:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Zsh hackers list Nothing significant has turned up, so I will probably release 3.1.6 at the beginning of next week. If there's a chance 3.0.6 is going to appear at the same time, I can wait. I'm going away on 7th August, so a traditional date would be the 6th August. Does anyone remember where else the release should be announced apart from zsh-announce? comp.unix.shell +...? I'm assuming there's no point in posting it to comp.sources.misc any more. Do we need some overblown hype to go with it? `The World's Favourite Shell Just Got Better'? `Where do you want to go tomorrow'? I think perhaps not. -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: 3.1.6 status 1999-07-23 8:03 3.1.6 status Peter Stephenson @ 1999-07-23 14:38 ` Vin Shelton 1999-07-23 14:37 ` Peter Stephenson 1999-07-23 18:58 ` Hype (was Re: 3.1.6 status) Bruce Stephens 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Vin Shelton @ 1999-07-23 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Stephenson; +Cc: Zsh hackers list We've had a lot of patches to -test-2. I would think we should have a period of no patches before we release 3.1.6. This period of stability ensures that we're all running with the same code. Ideally, that period of stability would last several days and no bugs would be reported against that release. I would recommend releasing a -test-3 now with all applied patches. I hope this code would end up being the 3.1.6 release, but we won't know unless we're all starting from the same page. - vin -- In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T.S. Eliot ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: 3.1.6 status 1999-07-23 14:38 ` Vin Shelton @ 1999-07-23 14:37 ` Peter Stephenson 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Peter Stephenson @ 1999-07-23 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Zsh hackers list Vin Shelton wrote: > We've had a lot of patches to -test-2. I would think we should have a > period of no patches before we release 3.1.6. This period of > stability ensures that we're all running with the same code. Ideally, > that period of stability would last several days and no bugs would be > reported against that release. I would recommend releasing a -test-3 > now with all applied patches. I hope this code would end up being the > 3.1.6 release, but we won't know unless we're all starting from the > same page. The trouble is, that's never going to happen. There are always going to be patches, and at this stage they're all bug fixes (many of them minor changes to individual completion functions which I'll accept up to the last minute, since they're localised). If I apply them, they fix a bug; if I don't, then the shell still has a bug. If I wait until there are none, I'll wait forever. That's particularly true of the completion code, for which there are fiendishly many different things going on; we're never going to get to a state where last week it was wrong and this week it's right. FYI, here are the changes that affect general shell usage and configuration, excluding completion and documentations changes, which I've applied since test-2. * Sven: 7259, 7261: Src/subst.c, Src/Modules/parameter.c, Doc/Zsh/expn.yo, Completion/Core/_normal, Completion/Core/_parameters: parameter module provides local information; used in _parameters; _normal uses $commands when available. * Bart: 7230: Src/exec.c: cancd2 didn't free string properly (or at all, in fact). * Sven: 7217: Src/exec.c: duplicate function name for scriptname. * Ollivier: 7209, 7210: configure.in, Etc/MACHINES: Elf and a.out dynamic loading on FreeBSD (MACHINES entry adapted). * Tanaka Akira: 7205: Src/Modules/mapfile.c: MS_SYNC was not defined on SunOS 4. * pws: 7202: Src/Modules/clone.c: add an extra zero argument to ioctl() to make three. Three of those were configuration problems, which only a small number of users will ever see; one (7259/7261) was a minor addition to the parameters code; two were simple but necessary local fixes (7217 and 7230). I'm not convinced that's enough to let the saga drag on. But if there's a general belief, I can hang on another week (and not any apply any patches to the C code). Vote now. -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Hype (was Re: 3.1.6 status) 1999-07-23 8:03 3.1.6 status Peter Stephenson 1999-07-23 14:38 ` Vin Shelton @ 1999-07-23 18:58 ` Bruce Stephens 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Bruce Stephens @ 1999-07-23 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Zsh hackers list Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> writes: > Do we need some overblown hype to go with it? `The World's Favourite Shell > Just Got Better'? `Where do you want to go tomorrow'? I think perhaps > not. `Bringing the bloat to the command line'? (That's not strictly true, in that zsh isn't *that* big. But it *does* have lots of features.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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