Re: Website Meta Language version 2.0.11 Was Released

On Sunday 20 August 2006 17:04, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > [...]
> > on behalf of past and present contributors to Website Meta Language
> > ( http://thewml.org/ ) we are proud to announce the availability of
> > Website Meta Language version 2.0.11. This is a bug fix release in the
> > 2.0.x series, which corrects building on the Cygwin platform, and
> > incorporates some patches from downstream.
>
> Thanks very much. A few additional items which should be resolved with a
> WML 2.0.12 or WML 2.1.0:
>
> 1. Just remove the references to the old engelschall.com FTP locations
>    as they are not carrying WML stuff any more since a longer time.
>

OK.

> 2. On the title page http://thewml.org/ there is a "Browse"
>    which points to a not existing http://thewml.org/distrib/wml-2.0.11/
>    and the link to http://thewml.org/distrib/wml-SNAP/ seems to
>    be old stuff.
>

Thanks, I'll remove it.

> 3. The CVS on thewml.org is still at the state of WML 2.0.9. The
>    changes between 2.0.9 and 2.0.11 are missing there. I would like to
>    see the Changes comitted to this CVS including a CVS tag for 2.0.10
>    and 2.0.11 or the SVN on thewml.org should be finally used. Then
>    the CVS history should be imported via cvs2svn and then development
>    should be done there.
>
>    I can also install CVSTrac for the CVS or the SVN so we have the
>    repository (and optionally even a bug tracking system) online under
>    thewml.org available. Just tell me whether you wish to further
>    develop WML in CVS or SVN. I recommend SVN for the long-term, but in
>    case you want less conversion/import efforts we can keep CVS, too.

At the moment I'm using http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/thewml/ as my SVN 
repository. I don't think I'll need the WML history inside the CVS, and don't 
mind the history to be splitted in two.

>
> 4. The ChangeLog in the wml-2.0.11 distribution doesn't tell anything
>    about 2.0.11. It stopped at 2.0.9.
>

OK, I'll correct it.


> 5. See http://cvs.openpkg.org/dir?d=openpkg-src/wml for a bunch
>    of patches we still have to apply to WML 2.0.11 to get it running on
>    all platforms. Just incorporate those of them which make sense for
>    you, too.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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