Mark,
A beta soon sounds good to me. I sorta felt the need to push myself a bit
since this had languished for so long. Now I can get back to the project
that spurred me to get a feature release out in the first place :-)
Rick
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Ok, I think I'm caught up on all the things I had targeted for the 4.2.0
>> release
>>
>
> That was good timing. I ported the 4.2.3 version of ooDialog into trunk
> this morning, committed it tonight. That was the one thing I wanted in
> ooRexx 4.2.0
>
> I started on the CHANGES doc and need to update the read me, both the text
> and the PDF version.
>
>
> ...and apologies to anybody subscribed to the tracker and svn lists :-).
>>
>
> Hey, I enjoyed it. It was obvious progress was going on. ;-)
>
>
>> There are still 3 features I had tentatively tagged as 4.2.0 targets.
>> Two are install issues Mark opened (and I assume you'll be the one
>> handling).
>>
>
> One of them we'll include, using NSIS with support for longer strings.
> The other, there is a cool way of detecting executables or DLLs in use and
> showing the user what they are. But, it is a little involved and I don't
> feel like tackling it now. So, I don't plan on during it for this release.
>
>
>> The third is the *ix feature request
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/542/ to deal with the
>> whole being able to install/use ooRexx without requiring admin permissions.
>> I believe there was some suggested fix for this, but I certainly don't
>> understand the issues here to follow through on this. It is perfectly
>> acceptable to push these to a future list, but I'm not going to be the one
>> to determine that.
>>
>
> I say push the *ix 542 RFE to the future. I think we need to discuss
> exactly how to provide some type of distribution for Linux that users can
> install and execute from their home directories. I'd like to see some type
> of good, viable, long-term solution for that, rather than just do something
> quick to get it into a 4.2.0 release.
>
> Michael's got a solution to his problem now. Any one else of his skill
> level should be able to do the same thing, so I don't see this as a real
> pressing issue right now.
>
> Rick, I wasn't sure how long it would take you to get where you are now.
> Since we haven't done a feature release for a long time and there are some
> nice new features in trunk now, I'm in favor of not adding any more and
> doing a beta / release cycle now. Maybe we can get some users to actually
> test the beta over Christmas break.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
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