Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Stas, >> Some of the few people still active on the list also >> know a lot about dosemu. Including a number of things >> which changed since the last official stable release. > Then lets CC to the list. > I don't know whom do you mean. Mainly Bart and you. Solarflow is also very active and E

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
23.10.2012 01:24, Eric Auer пишет: >> I think "too humble" is exactly fine for a quick release done >> not by a developer. Ideally, 1.6 should follow soon, but this >> may not happen. > Some of the few people still active on the list also > know a lot about dosemu. Including a number of things > wh

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
22.10.2012 20:11, Bart Oldeman пишет: > my reasoning goes like this: current "git" is much better than 1.4.0 > even if there are a few minor regressions we don't know about. So if > 1.4.0 is "stable" then what is released now should also be stable, > so as to not confuse users, who should really no

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
22.10.2012 17:27, Bart Oldeman пишет: > I allowed some mild development but that's mostly new features that > don't break code. Of course, the non-zero base changes affected a lot > of code but those were no-ops in the case of a zero base. Bugs happen from any intrusive (and even non-intrusive) cha

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
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Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, > Yes because the rate of the development is very slow. > If the commits are more frequent, then the chances are > high to get a broken snapshot. Yes, exactly, I never opened a development branch because the activity on the main branch was very slow and mostly bug fixing. I allowed some mild

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
20.10.2012 05:00, Bart Oldeman пишет: > There's a backlog of SF issues that should be resolved (including also I've just wiped the entire "Patches" section. (without applying a single patch though) So the backlog became smaller. You can review just a couple of patches that left. --

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
22.10.2012 06:41, solarflow99 пишет: > its fine by me, if someone can create a 1.5 tag then, I can build and > test with that. Just proceed with HEAD for now, and if no regressions pop up, I can create a tag. > sure how git works, I've been taking the latest git when making an RPM > when it was ti

Re: [Dosemu-devel] Fwd: DOSEMU for Linux project inactivity?

2012-10-22 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi. 22.10.2012 02:46, Eric Auer пишет: > it is exciting to hear that there are plans for a new release :-) How about a new release but without any plans? Still exciting? :) > Maybe you would like to ask on the freedos lists for some tests? Would be nice to get some testing of the current git. And