On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
> Go ahead...you're sort of the guru for putting out releases of late.
>
>
I took a chance and decided to assume David will be okay with branching now
and went ahead and got it started. The docs and main are branched.
The beta 4.2.0 directory is created on SourceForge. I'll send out the beta
announcement tomorrow.
--
Mark Miesfeld
> 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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