EPIC5-0.9.0 released

[Jeremy Nelson]

I've released epic5-0.9.0 which is a stable candidate beta release for maybe
what will become epic5-1.0. There has been a steady increase in people saying
that the only thing that stops them from using epic5 is that we won't call it
a production release, even though it always pretty much has been. So to make
everybody happy, everyone seemed to be of one accord that we should just
release what we have as production and then continue on with things.

It's now available at the normal place:
http://ftp.epicsol.org/pub/epic/EPIC5-BETA/epic5-0.9.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.epicsol.org/pub/epic/EPIC5-BETA/epic5-0.9.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.epicsol.org/pub/epic/EPIC5-BETA/epic5-0.9.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.epicsol.org/pub/epic/EPIC5-BETA/epic5-0.9.0.tar.gz

I haven't decided what the parameters of the voting will be this time
around since I assume there are a lot less epic users than there used to
be, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks to all who contributed their effort to get us to this point!
Jeremy

[Vegard Svanberg]

Post by Jeremy Nelson
I've released epic5-0.9.0 which is a stable candidate beta release for maybe
what will become epic5-1.0.

I searched the wiki, but couldn't find info about epic5 and UTF8.
Does/will epic5 support UTF(8)?

[Jeremy Nelson]

Post by Vegard Svanberg

Post by Jeremy Nelson
I've released epic5-0.9.0 which is a stable candidate beta release for maybe
what will become epic5-1.0.

I searched the wiki, but couldn't find info about epic5 and UTF8.
Does/will epic5 support UTF(8)?

No -- EPIC5 does not support utf8 and won't for this release. I'm still
looking for someone who has experience with utf8 support in C programs to
give me help in identifying and converting all of the code that assumes that
one byte == one column == one glyph to the new way of doing things in unicode.

Alas, nobody has really shown any interest at all in helping, and so it
awaits time for me to learn how to do it and accomplish it among all of
the other things. I apologize if the tone of the previous statement seems
impudent -- it's really more a sense of resignation that I have to do it
all myself and people will keep asking me why it isn't done yet...

Sorry...
Jeremy

[Zach White]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Jeremy Nelson

Post by Jeremy Nelson
I've released epic5-0.9.0 which is a stable candidate beta release for maybe
what will become epic5-1.0. There has been a steady increase in people saying
that the only thing that stops them from using epic5 is that we won't call it
a production release, even though it always pretty much has been. So to make
everybody happy, everyone seemed to be of one accord that we should just
release what we have as production and then continue on with things.

Zak's mail reminded me that I haven't done this...

For anyone using my Ubuntu/Debian packages for epic5, I've updated my
packages to 0.9.0. Currently only the i386 package is there as the guy
who builds the amd64 package has not woken up to build it yet. :)

Since I think I've only promoted this in #amnesiac, here's the place
to get information about my apt repo:

http://tinyurl.com/67jcnn
(http://darkstar.frop.org/~zwhite/blog/tech/20080519-debian-packages-for-epic5-and-amn.html)

The package uses the standard /etc/alternatives system for picking a
script to load on startup, and should otherwise fit very well into a
debian-like system. I haven't done much testing with 0.9.0, but it
installs and I can get on EFnet, so it seems ready to release to me.
:)

-skullY

[Zach White]

(Resending because I accidentally sent this before my address change
went through. My apologies if two copies of this make it to the list.)

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Jeremy Nelson

Post by Jeremy Nelson
I've released epic5-0.9.0 which is a stable candidate beta release for maybe
what will become epic5-1.0. There has been a steady increase in people saying
that the only thing that stops them from using epic5 is that we won't call it
a production release, even though it always pretty much has been.
So to make
everybody happy, everyone seemed to be of one accord that we should just
release what we have as production and then continue on with things.

Zak's mail reminded me that I haven't done this...

For anyone using my Ubuntu/Debian packages for epic5, I've updated my
packages to 0.9.0. Currently only the i386 package is there as the guy
who builds the amd64 package has not woken up to build it yet. :)

Since I think I've only promoted this in #amnesiac, here's the place
to get information about my apt repo:

http://tinyurl.com/67jcnn (http://darkstar.frop.org/~zwhite/blog/tech/20080519-debian-packages-for-epic5-and-amn.html
)

The package uses the standard /etc/alternatives system for picking a
script to load on startup, and should otherwise fit very well into a
debian-like system. I haven't done much testing with 0.9.0, but it
installs and I can get on EFnet, so it seems ready to release to me. :)

-skullY