Re: [hatari-devel] Release time for 1.8.1 ?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On torstai 07 toukokuu 2015, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> I think 1.8.1 is more appropriate than 1.9, because emulation is rather
> close to what we have in 1.8.0 (I'd rather keep 1.9 for the next release
> where WinUAE CPU will be the default cpu also for STF/STE mode, which is
> not ready yet)

If you compare 1.8 release where major user-visible features were:
- second statusbar line
- vastly better floppy disk support
- automatic program symbol loading (for debugger users)

To current devel version where major end-user visible features are:
- Working TT-RAM, MMU & 060 support in "Falcon" (WinUAE) version
- Joystick & keyboard navigation in SDL GUI
- Non-ASCII character support in SDL GUI & GEMDOS HD emulation
- SDL2 support for arbitrary ST/E screen scaling
  (frequently requested Hatari feature)
- New mime-types & icons :-)

I don't think it's a lesser release.  I would propose 1.9.


> Possible release date could be end of may / beginning of june. This
> leaves approx 1 month to fix pending issues or add new code if necessary.
> 
> So, if you have anything on your todo list you'd like to complete
> before, please tell it now.

Some thing that I'd like to see finalized before release:
- mouse warp
- fopen trace flag
- emulation halt dialog in WinUAE CPU core
- Douglas' DSP debugger & FPU dissembly issues [1]
- Laurent's asm56000.ttp / GEMDOS HD emu issue
- non-ASCII SDL GUI / filename support
- update Python GUI for new features

[1] Douglas, now that you got latest Hatari working, could
    you recheck these issues whether they still happen?

More testing is probably required for:
- SDL2 version
- non-ASCII filename support
- GEMDOS HD emu Pexec7 stuff
- Your recent MIDI changes

And I would really like something to be done for the zero-cycles
regression with WinUAE CPU core, especially if this is going to
be .1 release instead of .0 one.  It makes profiler much
less useful with the new WinUAE CPU core version.

-> could you look at it e.g. with Laurent?

I have also one profiler feature (NatFeats API to temporarily
suspend profiling) that's waiting Douglas to have time to test it.

All this might take more than month.


	- Eero