[as-devel] 1.8 release woes
David Mihm (dmihm@rchitecture.com)
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:42:22 -0600 (CST)
There has been a great deal of disagreement on the 'upcoming'
release of 1.8. In my opinion, the latest devel needs to have a
no-brainer method of going from 1.6 to 1.8. The documentation also needs
to be 100% _complete_ and _accurate_ - FAQ, man pages, READMEs (Solaris,
HPUX, etc). The current look/feel/etc files need to be thuroughly
inspected to verify that they are indeed current with the latest
'expected' contents (AfterStep:function specification requires "name" in
[Nop]. is one that is continuously output with default files). The
test.steprc needs adjusting to work; feels need _every_ cursor definition
in them. This might not be an inclusive list of things, but it's on my
TODO.
As for ascp, it is my opinion that releasing 1.8 w/o ascp is a
BadThing. Everyone seems to disagreee with mw on this point, but it's my
feeling. We need, as a minumun if ascp won't be released as 1.8, some
method to transfer 1.6.x config files to the new format. A lengthy text
file telling the user what to do is _not_ the answer; there needs to be a
script - be it perl, shell, java; I really don't care, but a methodology
needs to exist.
Now this is in the forefront and open for debate/discussion/law
suits/etc.
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