Re: slrn 1.0 [2007-08-25] ?
Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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| Organization | Black Trash Productions <http://www.blacktrash.org/> |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
* Peter J Ross on Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 01:30:12 +0100: > 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? >> >> Have there been sufficient tests how it does compile for the current >> release? (e.g. UTF-8 support on linux and MacOSX?) No probs on MacOS 10.4, and there were none on 10.3 either. Except for a intermittent bug in S-Lang, which has been resolved. > 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. I'm using Thomas' patches and they solve the first 2 issues. c -- Make Slrn newsreader read MIME (Python required): <http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/SlrnMime/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/