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[lcd4linux] ANNOUNCE: LCD4Linux-0.10.1-RC1 released!

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi there,

Thanks to Martin Hejl (who kicked me in the ass some days ago), I
released the first release candidate of LCD4Linux-0.10.1

Have a look at http://lcd4linux.bulix.org for details, download, and a
(probably incomplete) list of changes.

The 'trunk' was bumped to version 0.10.2, but there will be no
development until 0.10.1 is released.

I'd appreciate any tests and feedback on RC1, so we can release 0.10.1
shortly, and continue work on 0.10.2 (there are plans for scrolling,
finally!)

Note that I got two cool displays recently, but I withstood to develop a
driver for them, but released RC1.

So that's the main reason for releasing that seldom: every time I'm
thinking of releasing something, someone sends me a new and unsupportd
display :-)


Have fun, Michael


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Re: [lcd4linux] [Lcd4linux-devel] ANNOUNCE: LCD4Linux-0.10.1-RC1 released!

[Robert B. <rb...@ge...>]

Michael Reinelt wrote:
> Thanks to Martin Hejl (who kicked me in the ass some days ago), I
> released the first release candidate of LCD4Linux-0.10.1
> 
> Have a look at http://lcd4linux.bulix.org for details, download, and a
> (probably incomplete) list of changes.

Finally! I just bumped the version in Gentoo[1] and ran into few minor
problems:

1. ChangeLog
As you sure noticed, the ChangeLog shipped with the RC was not current.

2. Filename and URL
There's a problem with you hosting the download files in the wiki:
Besides the download being pretty slow (about 10kb/s), with a wget query
the downloaded file's name will be
"lcd4linux-0.10.1-RC1.tar.gz?format=raw". As renaming does not work with
the Gentoo package management and mirror scripts, I cannot give your
link as "source link" in the package. I worked around that problem by
manually introducing the file into the Gentoo mirroring, but if it is
possible in the future, please host the file outside the wiki.

3. gcc-Warning
Maybe you saw them yourself, but in case you missed them, here they are:

drv_BeckmannEgle.c: In function 'drv_BuE_CT_start':
drv_BeckmannEgle.c:355: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion

drv_WincorNixdorf.c: In function 'drv_WN_start':
drv_WincorNixdorf.c:143: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion

drv_Image.c: In function 'drv_IMG_flush_PPM':
drv_Image.c:117: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4
has type 'long unsigned int'
drv_Image.c:124: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3
has type 'long unsigned int'

plugin_mysql.c: In function 'configure_mysql':
plugin_mysql.c:93: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 6 of
'cfg_number' differ in signedness


> The 'trunk' was bumped to version 0.10.2, but there will be no
> development until 0.10.1 is released.
> 
> I'd appreciate any tests and feedback on RC1, so we can release 0.10.1
> shortly, and continue work on 0.10.2 (there are plans for scrolling,
> finally!)

Is there a reason you didn't svn-tag the rc? It's always nice to have
the old versions tagged to get the changes at the next release :-)


> So that's the main reason for releasing that seldom: every time I'm
> thinking of releasing something, someone sends me a new and unsupportd
> display :-)

Damn. I just get to see the pictures of the displays in the wiki. Must
be nice to get some examples ;-P

Anyway, nice work.

Robert

[1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-misc/lcd4linux/

Re: [lcd4linux] [Lcd4linux-devel] ANNOUNCE: LCD4Linux-0.10.1-RC1 released!

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Robert,

> 1. ChangeLog
> As you sure noticed, the ChangeLog shipped with the RC was not current.
Yes, I've noticed that, fill be fixed in RC2

> 2. Filename and URL
> There's a problem with you hosting the download files in the wiki:
> Besides the download being pretty slow (about 10kb/s), with a wget query
> the downloaded file's name will be
> "lcd4linux-0.10.1-RC1.tar.gz?format=raw". As renaming does not work with
> the Gentoo package management and mirror scripts, I cannot give your
> link as "source link" in the package. I worked around that problem by
> manually introducing the file into the Gentoo mirroring, but if it is
> possible in the future, please host the file outside the wiki.

Hmm, thanks for pointing that out. Well, I could use SourceForge's
Download Service, although I don't like to :-)

Sam, any ideas?

> 3. gcc-Warning
> Maybe you saw them yourself, but in case you missed them, here they are:
Strange, I don't see this warnings. What version of gcc do you use? here
its gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

As long as I don't get the warnings, it will be hard to fix'em.

> Is there a reason you didn't svn-tag the rc? It's always nice to have
> the old versions tagged to get the changes at the next release :-)
Yes, I don't want to tag RC's, but I will tag 0.10.1. I hope that there
will be no more RC's in the future, but a much more frequent release cycle.

> Damn. I just get to see the pictures of the displays in the wiki. Must
> be nice to get some examples ;-P
Let me tell you that this photo is quite old, and my collection is about
5 times greater by now :-)

Thanks for your feedback!


bye, Michael

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Michael Reinelt <re...@eu...>
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