[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Proposal for next liblouis release date
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:52:56 -0600
It turns out that removing the spacing parameter would involve a lot of
low-level code manipulation. I cannot give it priority in my own work. There
are other things that are much more important, such
as emphasis, Nemeth and backtranslation.
Christian, I'll see about getting you access to www.liblouis.org, so you can do
uploads and maintain the site.
John
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:29:28PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> On 01/09/2014 02:47 AM, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> >On Mon 23/12/13,14:28, Christian Egli wrote:
> >>I'd like to release version 2.5.4 of liblouis early next year, let's say
> >>Friday 2014-1-17.
> >
> >We are due a release on the 1st March, 2014, just before the spacing
> >param is removed.
> >//www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Eliminating-the-spacingparameter
> >Does this mean we will have two releases in quick succession?
>
> I had totally forgotten about that. This is not backwards compatible
> isn't it?
>
> >I would prefer if we could delay until the 1st, there are some major
> >improvements for the Danish tables that Bue and I are keen to see
> >made available in a release, but it will most likely not be doable by 17th
> >Jan. 1 March is more doable for us.
>
> My real motivation to do a release was to be able to use the google code
> downloads one more time before they close. Now I realize that the cut of
> date is January 14th, i.e. we would have to do a release on that date
> (in 5 days).
>
> >thoughts?
>
> I'm unsure. I think we have enough material to do a solid release. If I
> understand correctly the spacing parameter business is not backwards
> compatible, so that would warrant a bit more warning. Maybe this would
> imply another release in a couple of months?
>
> If we wait then we will have to have a solution for the downloads. I
> think we agreed to put them on liblouis.org, but I personally don't have
> access there so I couldn't do an upload. I don't feel very comfortable
> about this as I cannot do a release if I can't upload it.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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