Re: [viewvc-dev] Looking ahead to ViewVC 1.2.0

On 07/16/2010 12:29 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> I'm starting to consider ViewVC 1.2.0.  There's no super-compelling set of
> features necessitating it from a functionality standpoint, but I think
> bumping to a new minor release might be prudent just in terms of managing
> user expectations.  Some of the things I'd like to do with ViewVC 1.2.0 that
> don't feel "right" for 1.1.x include:
> 
> 1.  bumping the minimum required Python version to something much, much
>     newer -- at least Python 2.4 (which was released in 2004!)
> 
> 2.  ditching the explicit use of 'string' module.  (see #1)
> 
> 3.  reworking the default template set to be more like the 'newvc'
>     contrib template set I introduced for 1.1.x
> 
> 4.  using difflib internally and ditching the GNU diff dependency.  (see #1)
> 
> 5.  syntax highlighting and character set detection/transcoding for
>     the diff view, too.  (depends, kinda, on #4)
> 
> I don't expect that we'll see a 1.2.0 release for still some time.  Maybe
> another six months or so.  But I just wanted to share these thoughts,
> especially as item 2 (which I'll probably start soon) will likely be a
> booger in terms of wrecking the process of porting changes between trunk and
> older versions.

Feel free to chime in with suggestions for other
probably-needs-a-minor-version-bump changes you can think of.  I'll start.

* Drop the query.cgi interface, keeping only the query integration that's
part of viewvc.cgi.


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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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