[Pyode-user] Towards an official release...

[Matthias B. <ba...@ir...>]

Hi,

as there haven't been much changes to the code lately, I'd suggest to do 
  the final steps so that we can do an official release.

I think we have already agreed on using the same license than ODE 
itself. I took the copyright notice from an ODE source file and slightly 
modified it to:

# Python Open Dynamics Engine Wrapper
# Copyright (C) 2004 PyODE developers (see file AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of EITHER:
#   (1) The GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
#       Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
#       your option) any later version. The text of the GNU Lesser
#       General Public License is included with this library in the
#       file LICENSE.TXT.
#   (2) The BSD-style license that is included with this library in
#       the file LICENSE-BSD.TXT.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the files
# LICENSE.TXT and LICENSE-BSD.TXT for more details.

I don't know what a copyright notice has to look like if there's more 
than just one author. But it looked reasonable to me just to refer to 
the AUTHORS file instead of listing everyone here.
So does everyone agree with that? If so, I'll add this to our source files.
(are there any objections if I add me, Brett and Bernie to the AUTHORS 
file?)

By the way, should we remove the .TXT suffix from the license files? Or 
should be add .TXT to our existing files? (I'd slightly tend towards the 
suffix as it makes reading a bit easier for the Windows people, but I 
also have no problems if they are not present.)

Which files should be kept? What will be in the NEWS file (except for 
the giant monkeys taking over the United Nations summit? :) Isn't that 
somewhat the same than the ChangeLog? And I suppose the file COPYING 
will be replaced by the two license files from ODE, right?

Another issue: What kind of version numbering scheme will we use? And 
what is the current version? In my previous versions I just used the ODE 
version that I was using (it's another thing that I got that mixed up). 
But meanwhile, I don't think that's such a good idea as the version 
might differ on our platforms. So I'd just vote for using 1.0 (or 1.0.0) 
for this release and then increase the version as appropriate.

Is there anything else I forgot?

- Matthias -