[XForms] Towards xforms 1.1

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 28 November 2003 5:15 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> To subscribers of the xforms list Ok, Jean-Marc. I think that
> Angus> we're getting closer, don't you? What else do you have on your
> Angus> to-do list?
>
> In no particular order:
>
> - We've got to decide on a version number. I suggest something like
>   1.0.90. 

Ok.

>  The m4 code needs to be changed probably, as we seem to have
>   two notions of current version in configure.ac.

Is this the difference between the 'release' version and the 'indication of 
the binary compatibility of the libraries' version thingy that confused us 
way back when? Is there no place that we can ask for advice? Someone must 
understand this stuff.

> - we may need to support dlls under windows (but this can maybe wait
>   for next version).

I don't know about you, but I think of this release as the 'autotools' 
release. Would be nice therefore if we finished it off before release and 
never had to worry about any of this crap ever again...

> - we need to update README a little bit more (there is a duplicated
>   part...)

I'll have a go.

> - besides the standard installation instructions in INSTALL, should we
>   document things like --enable-demos --enable-gl and friends?

Yes. Where would it go? In INSTALL, or is that simply the generic stuff.

Incidentally, (now that I have repaired your breakage of 'make rpmdist' ;-P), 
would it make sense to create an xforms-demos src rpm. I guess that there is 
little point creating a binary of same... Hmmm, I'm not sure that would work, 
since the Makefile assumes that fdesign is to be found in ../fdesign/fdesign.

Let's leave that then ;-)

Angus