Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-11 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-10-06, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Should go into the release: > * support for writing compressed 7z archives. In particular I'd love to > have SevenZOutputFile default to LZMA2 compression with the release. > * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in > arj.

Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread James Carman
My point was that we need to try to get out of the mindset that we have to be perfect before we do a release. Of course, we should fix any glaring issues, but we need to get better about pushing releases out more often into our users' hands. I'm not pointing at [compress] here. Just responding to

Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-10-06, James Carman wrote: > Version numbers are cheap. Again, no argument. I wonder where you or Gregory got the idea it could be different. All I said was "here is my list of things I intend to do" - which contained two items and one of them has been done five hours later - and asked

Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread James Carman
Version numbers are cheap. We don't have to be *perfect* before every release. On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2013-10-06, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> In general I like the release early, release often model. > > I don't think we differ here. But before we cut a release

Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-10-06, Gary Gregory wrote: > In general I like the release early, release often model. I don't think we differ here. But before we cut a release we should be happy with the APIas we'll be forced to live with that for some time. Stefan ---

Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-10-06, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in > arj. done - inside the Ant compress antlib I now have archives created on Windows and Linux and I get the correct date/time on both of them - one has to consider the OS flag describin

Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread Gary Gregory
In general I like the release early, release often model. WRT helping I'm afraid that ATM I won't be able to do more than help with checking an RC. Gary On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:27, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Hi all > > we've already had users asking for a new release - in particular because > of 7z

[compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release

2013-10-06 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi all we've already had users asking for a new release - in particular because of 7z support. >From the top of my head there are two things I'd like to address before the release and one that would be nice but I know I won't find time to look into. Should go into the release: * support for wri