ktty-announce — Announcements

[D J G. <djg...@so...>]

K_TTY (Keyman style interpreter for Linux) version 2.1.4 is now
released on sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktty

New in this release are:

* configure script (care of GNU autoconf): checks for missing things; 
  looks for kernel source in a few different places; allows for more
  flexible build environment and different install directories; has a flag
  to change the line discipline.
* Option (to configure) of excluding /proc interface (possibly needed on
  older kernels) 
* Option (to configure) of starting module in "retreating" mode rather
  than the default "aggressive" mode (in which all (re)opened ttys become
  K_TTY ttys by default).
* kttyswitch tries to determine mode of driver, and thus get "on" and "off"
  round the right way. Otherwise it makes a guess based on selected
  compilation options.
* ChangeLog file.

Removed in this release:

* Makefiles (now created by configure script).

Bugs fixed in this release:

* Using the cache no longer seems to break the test suite.

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K_TTY (Keyman style interpreter for Linux) version 2.1.3 is now 
released on sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktty

New in this release are:

* Cleverer Makefiles, so that less is left up to the user to remember.

* NEW COMMAND NAMES to make installing more sane. 

* A simple test-suite "make verify" which checks whether the results of the
  test keyboards for some strings are in agreement with a "defined
  standard", which has been checked manually. 

* Test program (kttytest) doesn't need re-compiling to check a different
  keyboard, simply specify it on the command line.

* Separate keyboard loader (kttyload) can now load/update keyboards into kernel
  or switch a tty to using another keyboard.

* "make install" target to put things in /usr/local/bin

* Better checking pre-release to make sure that at least I can run it "out
  of the box"

* General and per-tty status entries in /proc/tty/ldisc/k_tty 

This file has CVS id: $Id: ReleaseNotes,v 1.6 2003/01/15 15:24:09 djgardner Exp $