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Re: Should there be a Zsh release for true-color support to adopt earlier?



Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote on Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:22 +0100:
> Hello
> Could there be a release made shortly to introduce true color support
> possibly early, without possible complications when other changes
> arise, and without waiting a half year for it to happen?
> 

I don't see anything stopping us from doing a "development" release,
5.6.1-test-0.

I don't have an opinion on whether to issue a 5.7.  That depends on what
other changes have been made since 5.6, and I don't have time to review
'git log' currently to assess that.

I won't be available to RM.

> There's a matter of testing the patches. I'm running patched Zsh with
> true-color syntax-highlighting themes from yesterday. I think I could
> possibly stress-test the patches for about 2 weeks before the release?
> And people would run Git-built Zsh for that time, but not utilizing
> the support (unless I release some 24-bit themes early in F-Sy-H, then
> some number of people could be testing it too).



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