Re: [Tcllib-devel] any thoughts on tcllib release?

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

> Andreas Kupries schrieb:
> >> I was just over at http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcllib/ and was looking at
> >> the release announcements. In 2000, 4 releases of Tcllib occurred. In 2001,
> >> 2 releases, in 2002, 2 releases, in 2003, 1 release, in 2004, 2
> releases, and
> >> in 2005, 1 release. Is there any thought of how many Tcllib releases,
> >> and when, would occur during 2006?
> >
> > I definitely want to do one release just before the conference. I
> am not sure if
> > we will have the time to make a release before that. If we want to
> do that we
> > will likely have to start on it now.
>
> Having a conference release is a good target.
>
> Tcllib development has slowed down quite a bit from my perception. Not
> so many new modules added in the last time.

True. Currently my perception is that I am the only person who is doing any type
of work on Tcllib, be it bug fixes, new modules, applying rfe's, etc. And as
Tcllib is not my sole focus I do things when I have time, as it pleases me, and
what pleases me. Like playing with the grammar_me module and making the mecpu
parts better

Doing a release on the other hand implies a concerted and focused effort over a
whole month, about.

> I would think we should target a release twice a year, mainly to push
> the recent bugfixes and new modules into all those downstream packagers
> like Linux distros, Mac OS X, which probably do not build from CVS.
>
> In fact just one new module since Tcllib 1.8:
> tiff
>
> There were various improvements, new submodules, etc. but in general its
> not very much that was added, mostly bugfixes and some additional
> functionality.

Hm. The exact extent of new stuff usually becomes only visible when a release is
prepared and the release manager goes through all the modules and brings
everything uptodate and collates the information for the README. Which is
tedious work by now, with 77 modules, and 198 packages.

> But there are still quite some bugs open (by module):
> We could probably halve this number easily, as many bugs look easy to
> solve, but just did not get enough attention.

Are these only bugs, or also patches and rfe's ?

> ftp		18
> mime		11
> html		7
> uri		6
> counter		5
> ncgi		4
> logger		3
> pop3		3
> profiler	3
> snit		3
> ldap		3
> base64 		2
> cmdline 	2
> comm		2
> exif		2
> ftpd		2
> htmlparse	2
> math::statistic 2
> struct::graph	2
> struct::tar	2
> crc		1
> dns		1
> doctools	1
> fileutil	1
> fileutil::magic 1
> inifile		1
> log		1
> math::geometry  1
> stoop		1
> struct::stack	1
> struct::tree	1
>
> We also have modules like imap4 which isn't included in the distribution
> yet, because its incomplete, undocumented, untested.
>
> Michael


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