[TiLP-devel] Re: Upcoming TiLP release

[Romain L. <rom...@wa...>]

Hi Brent !

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:13:22AM -0500, Brent Redeker wrote:
> Hi Romain,
> 
> It's your Gentoo packager again. Sorry I haven't talked in a while, but I have 
> been lurking on the mailing lists, so I saw that TiLP is in feature freeze for 
> the next release.
> 

It should be...

> I've been pretty busy, and haven't had nearly the time that I wish I had to 
> work on getting my ebuilds into Gentoo's official repository. But since the 
> end of the school year is approaching for me, I'm going to try and make a 
> point of doing that.
> 

ok

> With that in mind, I was just wondering if you'll be releasing the next 
> version (7.0?) before May. Since you're just beginning the release 
> preparations, I think not - but there's always a chance. If the next version 
> won't be out soon, I'll just try and get my current ebuilds into the 
> repository. Otherwise, I'll update them and try to get the updated ones 
> submitted.
> 

1°) About version number: there will not be a 7.xx but it will be a 
release >= 6.50 (currently 6.65). Given that the current release is just a 
port to GTK+ 2.0.  and does not include major enhancements, I did not increase 
the major number.

2°) There is a stuff which is lacking in the current release of TiLP: the GFM
(Group File Manager) plugin. It was present in earlier version of TiLP but
as a built-in feature.

3°) I would have loved this version extensively tested before being 
released. Unfortunately, I'm not at school any longer and I have to use
emulators for calcs I don't own. Thus, testing is quite so far to be perfect.
I'm currently discussing a calculator loan Texas Instruments France.

4°) CVS repository is not fully working at this time.

4°) We are at the end of April. May is coming soon. I think we can wait for
you...

Anyways, the official release will not be done now. I (Linux/Win32) will do
some pre-release on ticalc.org before in order to get some feedback, fix-up
stuff, re-release, ... THis may take a while.

> Thanks,
> 
> Brent
> 
> 

PS: please mail to the tilp-devel mailing list (til...@li...) so
that other developer/packager can participate in this discussion.
The answer has been CC/ to the list...

Thx, roms.
-- 
Romain Lievin, aka 'roms'  	<ro...@ti...>
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