Re: 0.9.9 release soon? goal?

Peter J Ross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 08 February 2008 02:05:22 Sven Guckes wrote:
> * Peter J Ross <[email protected]> [2008-02-08 02:13]:
> > Apart from the documentation being in need of some work
> > (which would be a problem for 1.0 or even 0.10,
> > but surely not for 0.9.9), is there anything
> > preventing a 0.9.9 release soon, or even today?
>
> slrn has no roadmap, no milestones...
> so noone but JED himself knows when
> it will be ready for release...  *shrug*

There's no hurry for a 1.0 release, but a lot of people are using 0.9.8.1pl1 
or pl2, both of which are badly broken in comparison to pre0.9.9. If 0.9.9 is 
impossible, let's call it 0.9.8.1pl3 instead!

> i have been waiting for a release for years now.

"The latest stable version of slrn is 0.9.8.1, released on 2004-10-07."

Yes, that *is* years.

> all development is spread across the web in
> many different places.

At present all development is centered on the SVN trunk, isn't it?

> it is unclear whether 
> some code will be incorporated as a patch or not.

Thomas Wiegner's minimal_multipart patch is a strong candidate. I've been 
using it only since yesterday, but I've tested it against all articles from 
the past two weeks in the thirty-plus groups I read that have a Content-Type 
header line other than "text/plain", and it seems to display most multipart 
articles adequately.

*Complete* MIME support can wait for 0.9.10.x or later.

> and so many problems can easily be solved when
> slang 2.0 comes out... or slang 3.0... whatever.
>
> it might be here just after the next debian
> release - but probably before hurd comes out.

But we may still have to wait a little longer for Duke Nukem Forever. :-)

> dont hold your breath.  there
> might be a release some day.
>
> "plans?  what plans?"
>
> if in doubt.. ask JED.

I did ask him, by posting here.

Meanwhile I see that Jörg Sommer is doing good work in Debian Experimental:

<http://packages.debian.org/experimental/news/slrn>


-- 
PJR :-)

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