[nail-devel] Line editor bug, and roadmap (Was: Re: Line editing capabilities)

[Steffen D. N. <sd...@gm...>]

Hello,
i've found a bug that affects all line editors.

The problem is that a newly introduced function does return
a valid but empty string when it should return NULL (*no* string),
as did the predecessor, causing calling functions to treat the
returned value as a «real» one – this causes, e.g., the `~@'
attachment loop to continue forever, since it tries to attach
a file with no name, instead of stopping the iteration.
The fix is attached, and *next* users will get the update if they
pull in the changes this saturday.  (Not today, i'm half in
getting clang(1) -Weverything running on FreeBSD 10 – poooh!  But
i hope the diff can be patched into your codebase…)

Besides – i have changed the roadmap and will release two more v14
minor versions instead of only one.  The first will take place at
the end of September i hope, the other will happen around
christmas.  (The loudly proclaimed spamassassin(1) hook (and thus
the drop of Ritter's junk and score mechanisms) will hopefully
make it into the latter.)
I'll do so because i drown in more and more TODO entries, and so
to get this pretty stable stuff off from the table.  Just some
more, and fixing the thread sorting issue…
Ciao,

--steffen