[Lcdproc] Release 0.5.1 ?

[Russell Krayer]

Hi Peter,


>From: Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de>
>To: lcdproc@lists.omnipotent.net
>Subject: Re: [Lcdproc] Release 0.5.1 ?
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:26:58 +0200
>
>Hi Jannis, hi list,
>
>On Monday, 18. September 2006 18:04, Jannis Achstetter wrote:
> > What about releasing 0.5.1 as there have been nice fixes to some
> > drivers (including the CF-635). I think it would be better for new
> > users to have these devices working with stable code as to tell them
> > they have to checkout CVS.
>
>I was considering making a pre-announcement of an upcoming LCDproc 0.5.1
>release in the next few days.
>
>I wanted to wait a few days before the announcement since I did not get any
>feedback regarding the CFONTZ633_WRITE_DELAY issue yet.


I have lcdproc-CVS-current-20060918 with CFONTZ633_WRITE_DELAY=50 running 
seemingly flawlessly on my PowerPC-based gentoo box (a kurobox) with gcc 
4.1.1.


I have one tiny issue with the lcdvc client, it loops forever on getopt() 
without this patch (my char seems implicity unsigned or something):

--- lcdvc/lcdvc.c       2003-04-30 19:42:08.000000000 -0400
+++ lcdvc-patched/lcdvc.c       2006-09-14 21:11:30.000000000 -0400
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@

int process_command_line( int argc, char ** argv )
{
-       char c;
+       int c;
        char * p;
        int temp_int;
        int error = 0;



>
>In the mean time (i.e. in the last 3 days ;-) I have
>* upgraded the man pages a bit so that they reflext the reality better
>* improved (and documented) the config file parser logic so that it now
>   - accepts spaces around keys and values
>   - accepts spaces in the section labels
>     (might save a few lines in lcdexec.conf ;-)
>   - returns failure on parsing errors
>   all this while keeping compatibility with the existing config file 
>parser
>
>Athough this is not the official announcement of an upcoming 0.5.1 release:
>Please check out tonight's tar ball and test it !
>Please report any failures or bugs you encounter to help shake out
>bugs in CVS and make the upcoming release as good as possible.
>(even better: send patches fixing bugs)
>

Keep up the good work!


Regards
Russ Krayer