Re: [Docutils-develop] docutils prerelease 0.19b1

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2022-06-21, engelbert gruber wrote:

> ... several changes happened that made a release necessary

Thank you for the release.


Some bugs are fixed in commits after the release:

r9089 Stop ignoring the "input-encoding-error-handler" setting/option.

r9090 Fix the wheel naming problem.

r9094 Fix the System Messages in https://docutils.sourceforge.io/HISTORY.html

      Could you upload a fixed version to the web space?


Regarding r9082:
  The script in ``sandbox/infrastructure/version_identifier_parsing.py``
  can be used to update the `docutils.__version_info__`::

    #> cd sandbox/infrastructure
    #> ./version_identifier_parsing.py --change-version-info ../../docutils/docutils/__init__.py

  This feature is fixed in r9096.
  It could be made part of the ``set_version.sh`` script.



Open Points (best solved before releasing 0.19 (final)):

- input encoding:

  * Announce a switch of the default to 'utf-8'?

  * Mark the handling of "input_encoding is None" as provisional?

- tools / entry-points:

  * Announce upcoming changes?

    · name changes (drop extension *.py)

    · keep the scripts in /tools but install auto-generated scripts
      via entry-points (allows modern packager, supports Windows)

    · do not install "exotic" scripts in the binary PATH?

- testing with Sphinx and other third party tools

  * contact concerned developers/maintainers
    Github tickets?


Günter