[Queue-developers] Queue 1.40.1 beta released

[Werner G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

Queue 1.40.1 beta is out on sourceforge, http:/www.gnuqueue.org .

This is intended to be a major release and represents many months of
work by a number of developers and contributors. (Most notably,
QingLong, Monic Lau. I also made some contributions.)

The "beta" designation reflects a growing concern with internal quality
control. After some feedback we will hopefully be able to drop the
"beta" designation and go for a full release.

Hopefully, we'll be able to bring out CVS snapshots periodically as beta
releases. This means the CVS repository version needs to work most of
the time (I've probably been the sloppiest with this) and, most
importantly, install well (I know this is important, so I've been pretty
good with this; I've had to debug installation problems that have
"appeared".)

These sorts of issues are important to us. For example, the installation
stuff involving the queue_manager stuff still needs a fair amount of
work to make the code install in a portable manner. (This is a major
reason why it is disabled by default.) The problem is most users won't
give a package a second look if there are installation problems. So, we
want to make we get these right.

Although "beta", this should be a much better release than 1.30.1, which
I've never been especially happy with. (Although it was up there for a
long time, unfortunately, because I've been distracted and wasn't sure
the CVS version was completely ready.)

So I  hope folks will have a look at it and report the bugs/installation
problems before it turns into 1.40.1 and is announced on Freshmeat and
in various other places.