Re: [hatari-devel] Things still remaining before v1.8 release?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On tiistai 29 heinäkuu 2014, Max Böhm wrote:
> no problem. I understand that decision. It can wait till 1.8.1 and that
> gives some more time to test it in different environments. (from my side
> it's carefully tested already).

Sorry, I was abroad without computer / network access.  I'm now
reviewing your patch and will push it to Mercurial after that.


	- Eero

Ps. It's nice to have smaller features for x.1 releases too,
not just fixes, and your change is more of a feature. :-)


> 
> Best regards,
> Max
> 
> Am 29.07.2014 um 10:49 schrieb Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Le 26/07/2014 16:29, Max Böhm a écrit :
> >> Hello Eero,
> >> 
> >> Thomas wrote:
> >>> OS X should be fine, and concerning the UTF-8 patch, this change is
> >>> IMHO too big to be included so close to the next release that I'd
> >>> rather postpone it for later. But I'd leave that decision to Eero
> >>> since he was mainly working on the GEMDOS HD emulation (especially
> >>> the name matching) in the past months... Eero, what do you think?
> >> 
> >> It would be nice if you could review the patch and decide if this can
> >> be included in the 1.8 version.
> >> 
> >> I have validated the patch on Windows/Linux/OSX as described below.
> >> During the validation I found that still an aspect of the OSX related
> >> UTF-8 conversion was incorrect and therefore have updated again my
> > 
> >> patch (sorry for so many updates, this is hopefully the final version 
now!):
> > Hello
> > 
> > thanks for your updated patch and your detailed tests, but I think I
> > won't have time to wait for validation to include it before 1.8
> > 
> > With summer, it's hard to find time to work on Hatari ; people are in
> > holidays, so it's not easy to validate these changes (and I don't use
> > char conversion in my folder, so I can't tell whether it's OK or not)
> > and making the release take some time too, and I'm not sure I will
> > have time to do it after next week (considering I expected to release
> > 1.8 around may/june, it's already late)
> > 
> > So, I'd rather postpone your utf-8 changes to hatari 1.8.1, I think
> > there should be an update around september, this will leave more time
> > to test this and other possible changes without any rush.
> > 
> > 
> > I will try to prepare the release this evening or tomorrow.
> > 
> > Nicolas