[perl-win32-gui-hackers] Re: v1.02 release

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

All,

I just did a final quick tidy-up and tagged the HEAD revisions as 
'Win32-GUI-1_02'.

I hope we'll have a release on SourceForge very soon.

Regards,
Rob.

Robert May wrote:

> Reini,
>
> OK, I've not had a chance to keep up with your tests this week, and 
> trying to catch up now find myself mightily confused.   Some of the 
> patches seem to be against the source that I called 1.01_03, some seem 
> to be incremental (probably on the previous set of patches?).  To add 
> to my confusion, my local source has changes beyond the 1.01_03 source 
> that you have.
>
> As far as I did get I was failing one test, but I can't tell if that's 
> because I didn't apply your patches correctly.  However, what you are 
> doing is great, and I want to encourage you to continue, but I am not 
> going to get the time in the next couple of weeks  to do much more 
> than just keep up with the mail on this list.
>
> I do want to get a V1.02 release out though.  Here's what I propose:
>
> (1) I've put a copy of the current CVS HEAD up at 
> http://www.robmay.me.uk/win32gui/. It's identified as 1.01_04.  Reini, 
> I'd very much appreciate it if you can confirm whether this code still 
> compiles for you under both your Cygwin and MSVC environments.   The 
> other MSVC6 users on the list appear to have no issues.
>
> (2) Everyone, a quick show of hands as to who would be happy for the 
> current CVS HEAD to be used for the 1.02 release.  Assuming we have no 
> negative feedback by the end of the week (when I am next in front of 
> my computer), then I will update the version to 1.02, tag the current 
> HEAD as release 1.02.
>
> (3) Glenn L (I hope I got the right Glenn) - you offered to do the 
> build under MSVC6 for both Perl 5.6 and 5.8.  Are you still happy to 
> do this?  If you are, then I will mail you once I have done (2).  If 
> you can then let me have the PPMs, Aldo has given me access to the 
> sourceforge file release system and I'll see if I can drive it and get 
> the files up for everyone to use.  Suggestions as to where 
> announcements should be made welcome - is there a 'usual' set of 
> places used by Aldo, Laurent et al.?
>
> (4) Once I have a bit more time, I'll work with Reini to get the test 
> suite updated.  I'm sure that doing this will turn up more issues than 
> those already found by Reini, and that should drive a following release.
>
> Reini, I hope that leaving your tests out of this release is OK with 
> you, but I simply don't have time to deal with it now, and I had set 
> expectations of a release this week..  (If anyone else has time, and 
> we can get some confidence that the tests pass in the various 
> different environments by the end of the week, then I'd be happy to 
> take them.)  I do agree with Jez, that going forward, if you would 
> like to contribute the easiest way for everyone would be for you to 
> mail Aldo and get your own CVS access.  At a minimum I think that you 
> should get yourself anonymous CVS access so that you can keep a local 
> source tree synchronised with the changes others are making - I can 
> provide help with this if you need it.
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
>
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