Re: ncurses-4.0 un-announcement

> I did not - and have not yet - seen such an announcement. AFAIK, I've
> been getting everything from ncurses-list_at_netcom.com with no hiccups.
Well, here's what _I_ got back after posting 1.9.9g. (And if you
missed the other stuff, the gist of it was that I packaged the 4.0
release, but am waiting for Zeyd to issue the announcement, as a courtesy,
since it's his mailing list).

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        Subject: ncurses 1.9.9g release
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        I've completed my regression builds for ncurses 1.9.9g (a couple of minor
        fixes since last night). It's available in

                ftp.clark.net:/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses-1.9.9g.tgz

        and will probably be in Zeyd's directory soon (I put a copy in his incoming
        directory).

        (this is an interim release - further changes are planned)

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        Thomas E. Dickey
        dickey_at_clark.net

>
> But the point I was trying to make was that there was absolutely no
> discussion about any impending release *before* it was done. No "last
> calls for patches and bug reports" or anything like that. Now I see
> some messages about bugs in 4.0...
ahem: there will also be bugs in 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, ...

(the bug that you're referring to is a minor one -- one of the debugging
traces isn't properly formatted ;-)

There was no call for patches, since that only leads to certain parties
running amuck, putting alpha-level changes into the final release. Do
recall that 1.9.9e was broken because of a last-minute change, as were
1.9.8, 1.9.7. Also recall that the main reason for my maintaining a
public beta is to forestall that problem as nearly as I can.

Juergen, Zeyd and I have been sending email to each other for a few months.
 
> It obviously caught Zeyd by suprise too, and he's apparently going to
> re-release it. Now it seems that we will soon have two ncurses-4.0
> releases. This is not good (and in this case, especially not good for
> linux). <sigh>
No. He was aware that it would be coming, but he hasn't been devoting
much time to it. (And he'll end up changing documentation just to assert
his position anyway).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey_at_clark.net