Re: [ECB-list] Preparing for ECB 2.50

[Ryan W. <rya...@in...>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Christian Hilberg <
hi...@ke...> wrote:

> Am Dienstag 20 Januar 2015, um 16:34:58 schrieb Ryan Ware:
> > All,
> >
> > I'll be getting ready to do a release of ECB 2.50 in the next couple
> > of weeks.  I'm still cleaning some things up, but things seem stable
> > (at least to me) and I wanted to do a beta release so other people can
> > give it a try and give feedback.
> > [...]
>
> That's great news, after all! :-)
>
> I've been watching Alex' and your repos for a while, so I know that
> ECB is much alive and has even picked up development speed lately.
>
> Searching the web for e.g. "emacs ecb", however, still leads to
> http://ecb.sourceforge.net/, with its latest release of ECB (2.40)
> dating back to 2009. This will most probably lure people into
> thinking that ECB is essentially dead, when, in fact, it is not.
>
> I guess since Alex as well as you set up your own ECB repos, there
> is no write access to the old SourceForge site? If someone has access,
> I'd propose to at least insert some info about the repo having moved
> to a new location and that the old site is kept in place solely
> for historical reasons. Sounds sound?
>

Klaus had agreed to give me administrative access to the SF ECB site.
Unfortunately that has never happened.  Until it does, there's not much I
can do about it.  That said, one of my next steps will be to publish 2.50
in one of the ELPA repos; hopefully in marmalade replacing the 2.40 version
that's there.  If that happens, then anyone using ELPA will automatically
get the latest regardless of ecb.sf.net.

Ryan