Re: [pcal-interest] Re: Patches For 'pcal' and Future Plans

[Marr <ma...@fl...>]

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 02:05am, sfr...@gm... wrote:
> Bill,
>
> > Ideally, I'd prefer not to be the one merging the patches to 'pcal' CVS,
> > but
> > if nobody else would be doing it otherwise (i.e. you or Stefan), thereby
>
> I had plans to merge the existing patches into a new release for a long
> time, but I never came round to do it. So, if you are willing to take over
> that task, please do so. Welcome to the pcal team!

Hi Stefan,

Yes, I'm willing to try getting those patches into a new release.

> My suggestion is as follows:
> You put togehter a test release (maybe labelled 4.7.2?) that includes all
> submitted patches (or at least those that seem reasonable). Other pcal
> users can then test that on various platforms. I can myself test on Cygwin
> and possibly also on DOS.  We could include possible quick fixes or simply
> report bugs for a new 4.8 release. For that, we could also try get the
> documentation is shape.
>
> Does this sound reasonable to you?

Yes. All that sounds completely logical to me. I'd be happy to do what I can 
to try to get everything (including documentation) into shape.

> By the way: Adding images to the postscript output is a great feature.

Thanks! I hope others can put it to good use too.

Bill Marr