Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/06/13/10:43:22
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
> Maybe we should talk about what people want in DJGPP 2.04 and 2.05 and what
> needs doing. I'm quite happy to maintain a web page tracking this stuff. That
> page may be a good repository for things to-do.
The main issue, as Charles points out, is to find a
victim^H^H^H^H^Holunteer who will manage the release through the alpha
and beta testing. Once we have that person in charge, we can simply
produce the first alpha and start the release process.
> The changelog for 2.04 is quite long, so perhaps we should try a release soon.
IMHO, v2.04 has enough new features to justify a release _now_.
> For an soon-ish release here's stuff that springs to mind:
>
> * Sort out issues with timing routines on Win2k (if possible).
> * Test out symlink code a lot more - build lots of packages with it, test
> interoperability with Cygwin stuff.
> * Review and incorporate Alex Aganichev's regex fixes.
These can be sorted out during alpha and beta testing.
> Here's what could go into 2.05:
>
> * Alex Aganichev's locale patches;
> * CB Falconer's nmalloc patches;
> * Large File Summit-compliance (there are some issues with our current support
> for large files).
>
> If we want to do a release later, we could push some of the 2.05 stuff into
> 2.04.
From experience, even a simple bugfix release (like v2.03) takes about 9
months. That's enough time to include and test all the newer features
like those you mention above and still be left with plenty of
opportunities to test them.
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