Re: [openMSX-devel] Proposal release goals

[Manuel B. <ma...@ms...>]

Hi,

After some talking today, I updated the list of the current release 
goals (also reflected in releng).

For the upcoming release, there are still some open ends. I propose to
do only the following, to be able to release as soon as possible:

- new logos, because it's not that much work anymore and Eric has time
to work on it soon, he said.
- check the compiler in the build system. This is almost finished, I
think, so we can easily include it.
- any updates necessary to stabilize diskmanipulator. It seems only the 
documentation should still be updated and it should be tested, of course.
- fix any critical bugs, e.g. the hang/crash in Catapult when choosing
something from the history (e.g. of the disk image combo)
- include C-BIOS 0.21, because a lot more games are working now. This
does mean a dependency on the C-BIOS team and can potentially cause even
more delay, so it may need to be discussed

This means that we will postpone:

- F-Nano 2 fix. Postpone because the initial solution is not adequate. A
real solution will take quite some work, so we should postpone it.
Maarten doesn't want to include a hacked version for this release to
keep the code clean.
- Mac OS X and Catapult binary packaging. We can't get it to work in
time, let's look at it
after current release.
- Detect presence of DirectX headers on Win32 systems. This is not a
very big deal in practice, because there are very little Win32 users
that compile openMSX themselves. It should be done in the long run, of
course.
- The other stuff that was already postponed.

> Additionally, I'd like to give some ideas for the release goals of the 
> upcoming version 0.5.3:

This is still my proposal as written in the previous mail.

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