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/