Go ahead...you're sort of the guru for putting out releases of late.
Rick
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
>
> Okay, I've updated all the read me files and the read me pdf doc for a
> 4.2.0 release. CHANGES, etc., etc.. Everything I wanted done is done.
>
> Unless David has something he wants to do before we branch main/trunk and
> docs/trunk, I think we are ready to get a beta started.
>
> You've done a lot to get this going Rick. I can do the branching tomorrow
> evening after we hear from David. Or of course you can do it if you want,
> and get to it before tomorrow evening.
>
> As soon as the branch is done I'll set up the directory on SourceForge and
> upload the Windows builds.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
>
>
>>
>> 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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