Re: slrn 1.0 [2007-08-25] ?

On Monday 02 July 2007 19:48, Martin Trautmann wrote:
> On 2. Jul 2007, at 0:37, Sven Guckes wrote:
> > the froscon will take  place on 2007-08-25 -
> > four years after the release of slrn 0.9.8.0.
> > do you think we can get slrn 1.0 ready for it?
> > and where exactly is that roadmap hiding, anyway?
>
> This would be great.
>
> Have there been sufficient tests how it does compile for the current
> release? (e.g. UTF-8 support on linux and MacOSX?)

I've found no problems with UTF-8 on Linux, but support for undeclared or 
incorrectly declared legacy character sets is poor. Any thread in which OE, 
Thunderbird, Agent and Google users participate is a mess on the screen - 
quite apart from the nonsense such people write ;-)

There are also problems with iconv, which are, likewise, the fault of other 
newsreaders using non-standard charset declarations.

There's a canlock issue as reported here by Robert Grimm and also discussed in 
NSR. There are probably other canlock issues, but they can probably be blamed 
on canlock. :-)

I'm hoping that Thomas Wiegner's patch will solve some of these  problems, but 
I haven't had time to try it yet.

The documentation needs some minor tweaks, and that's something I'm willing to 
volunteer to help with. And I can proof-read the website.

What other problems are there, if any? And which, if any, of these problems 
are release-critical?

Anyway, 1.0.0.0 doesn't have to be perfect; perfection will be achieved in 
1.0.1.15 or something!

-- 
PJR :-)

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