Subject: ZAP - Improve our release practices
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 04:32:29 CST
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I went through ESR's page on appropriate release practices and came up
with the following TODO's (broken down by category)
Code changes
1 portability
we obviously want to use an extremly portable subset of ANSI C++.
to that end, we need to fix bug 238, relating to non-standard
string fuctions
2 location of BUILD.TXT
ESR thinks it should be in abi, and not in abi/docs. I agree,
however, this should be discussed
Non-code changes
1 website
ESR thinks we should have more documentation on the site, and
frankly, i agree with him. at a minimum, the contents of abi/docs should
be availible online. someone should also start work on a manual,
but that's another story
2 filenames
ESR dislikes the underscore. he belives that *_static_* should be
changed to *.static.* for example. i think this is sort of minor, but it
could be discussed
3 ftp sites
this is important. metalab, the most important linux ftp site,
has shockingly old versions of abiword. this should be fixed ASAP, along
with other ftp sites. (rpmfind, etc)
other changes
autoconf, automake, etc vs diving make
this is for far in the future
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
ps
i skipped the reccomendation to use C.
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