Re: Roadmap for 0.99-17

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>do you have a plan of releasing version 0.99-17? Will this happen this
>year or at the earliest next year? I ask, because we need to update the
>Debian package and if 0.99-17 comes out in a few week we would suspend
>this task and upload the new version. Otherwise we would upload an
>updated 0.99-16.

The primary purpose of 0.99-17 was to test slang-2 and its unicode
support.   I have decided some time ago to adopt the common practice
of using odd-numbered releases as development snapshots and use
even-numbered ones as stable releases.  So the question becomes: when
will 0.99-18 be released?

The roadmap to 0.99-18 release will involve at least one more
0.99-17 release after I add unicode font support to Xjed.  There are
several other minor issues that I would like to see resolved or at
least documented for 0.99-18.  These include:

   1.  How well is unicode (UTF-8) handled?  Unfortunately, I am
       unable to answer this question since everything I edit is 7-bit
       ASCII.  Does anyone on this list use jed in UTF-8 mode?

   2.  Some sort of iconv support would be nice to permit one to edit
       a file encoded with a national character set while the editor
       is running in unicode mode.   This would be accomplished by
       having iconv convert the text in the national character-set to
       and from UTF-8.

   3.  The issue of the conditional loading of jed.conf.  A
       commandline switch has been proposed but I simply am unable to
       see why this is necessary.  Is there a concrete example that
       illustrates why the loading of jed.conf should be conditional?

I imagine that adding unicode font support to Xjed will not be
difficult, but will take some time to research the appropriate X11
interface.  Hopefully I will find time to do this in the next few
weeks and then make another 0.99-17 snapshot available.

I hope this addresses the question.
Thanks,
--John

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