Re: Proposed announcement for 4.0.1

[Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> Here is a draft announcement for 4.0.1 which will go to comp.unix.shell, in

> It's just thrown together from my own recollections, so is undoubtedly
> biased.  Please suggest changes.

It looks fine to me and I can't think of anything to suggest.

> I will release 4.0.1 later this week unless anyone can come up with
> significant unfinished business.

Good. I think it might be a good idea if all the 3.0.8 patches from
sourceforge are put together and released as 3.0.8a or 3.0.9 or
something. 3.0 is still sometimes useful and I think it would be handy
to have a final definitive release of 3.0 to refer to.

> Someone better remind me to move the
> contents of ChangeLog-Release and ChangeLog to Changelog-4.0 and create a

The `Version' section of the README file also needs updating.

There's quite a few problems on IRIX 5.3 which is now very old anyway so
I'll just update it out of Etc/MACHINES. It might be wise to remove some
of the other old entries from it too where we haven't had a positive
report in a long time (i.e. Cray, Data General, Next, Sco, Siemens).
I've removed the architectures next to the Linux entry because after
adding sparc, alpha, AMD Athlon, ia64 etc the list would be getting
silly.

Oliver

Index: Etc/MACHINES
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Etc/MACHINES,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 MACHINES
--- Etc/MACHINES        2001/05/28 04:55:47     1.9
+++ Etc/MACHINES        2001/05/30 09:53:45
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 DEC: Ultrix (Alpha or DECstation)
 DEC: Mach 3.0 (DECstation 5000/25)
 DEC: OSF/1 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.*, DEC Unix 4.* (Alpha)
+Compaq: Tru64
        In OSF/1 3.x, there is apparently a bug in the header file
        /usr/include/rpcsvc/ypclnt.h; the prototype for yp_all() has a
        struct ypall_callback as its final argument, which should be a
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@
        4.1, though native cc works. More information about this problem
        would be appreciated.
 
-Linux: Linux (i[345]86,various Pentia,AMD K6/2)
+Linux: Linux 2.*
        Should build `out-of-the-box'.
 
        If you are using an early minor version of libc 5, then a bug
@@ -144,11 +145,13 @@
        Note, that this version is obsolete and users are expected to 
        update to Reliant UNIX.
 
-SGI: IRIX 5.1.1.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5
+SGI: IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.5
        Should build `out-of-the-box'.
 
        On 6.5.2, zsh malloc routines are reported not to work; also
        full optimization (cc -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0) causes problems.
+
+       The zpty module is not currently supported.
 
 Sun: SunOS 4.1.*
        Under 4.1.3 if yellow pages is used, username completion may cause