Xastir is starting to get dropped out of various Linux package repos because of our dependence on the old PCRE API (for dbfawk and shapefile rendering). For this reason I've bumped up the priority of the issue that was opened about updating to PCRE2 and will likely be able to get it pushed out this weekend as a pull request. It is not hard and I already have a working version as a standalone hack so all that's left is to make it work smoothly at configure and build time.
Because this impacts our ability to be included in package repos, and those repos tend not to like to included unreleased code, we'll probably need a new release, and the next number in line is 2.2.0. We'll probably want to do that soon, say by the end of August? We already have a github kanban for 2.2.0 with a list of things we wanted to have done before we released that version. It seems we were much more enthusiastic about adding things to that list than we were about doing them, and there are 8 issues in the "To Do" column: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/projects/2 I propose to work on the issue #203 this weekend, and maybe get working on #202. *Maybe* if I feel really ambitious I'll tackle #25, but maybe not. But I suspect that most of the other 6 issues are not going to be worked on anytime soon --- some got a lot of attention back in 2019 but then fell by the wayside. Since they're not likely to get finished in the next month, I propose pushing them off to a future release and removing them from the 2.2.0 kanban. I would then like to push out a 2.2.0 release as soon as any pending pull requests get reviewed and merged. If you're looking for some way to help Xastir, please take a look at the kanban linked above and pick something you think you can fix. Next week I'll go through the project list and remove things from the To DO column for 2.2.0 that haven't had any commentary added this week that indicates it'll get done shortly. -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
