Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Release schedule for 3.2.0b5?

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Geoff Hutchison:
> On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 12:15  AM, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> > Thanks for your prompt reply, Geoff, and I apologise for sounding
> > impatient (yet again ):
> 
> I think we all want to see 3.2.0b5 out ASAP. :-)

I agree.  I know you've been looking to Geoff and me to provide some
leadership here, and I have to apologize that I haven't been in a
position lately to provide much.  However, despite being a bit out
of the loop lately, it does sound from the discussions here that the
cvs tree is in a better state than any prior beta release of 3.2.  So,
whether the remaining problems of occasional database corruption (still
not 100% sure that's licked, are we?) and OS X portability issues, are
showstoppers or not really becomes a judgement call, and I'd rather defer
to the judgement of those actively pursuing those particular problems.
When you guys feel the code is ready to release, I say go for it.

In the meantime, I'll try to find a bit of time this week or next to get
in the two fixes I promised to handle a long time ago (translate_latin1
attribute and htdig -m handling).  The latter is maybe dispensible, but
I think translate_latin1 is a must for our eastern European friends
(and possibly others who use 8-bit, non-latin1 character encodings),
as the current behaviour forces latin1 translations with no option to
turn it off.

> >  (d) chmod 755 t_url
> 
> Because the CVS tree at SourceForge horribly mangled a lot of 
> permissions, I wrote a "htdig-fix.sh" script that needs to be run 
> before a genuine release. I'll make sure that t_url is set 
> appropriately.
> 
> (I'm actually wondering at some point if we shouldn't just change 
> directory names in the SF CVS since the problem seems to be fixed with 
> another project I have there.)

If you can resolve the mode bit corruption, more power to you, Geoff!
If not, we may want to make the Makefiles and scripts somehow less
dependent on file modes in the source tree, and make sure modes are set
correctly in a make install.

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)