Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Releasing Wednesday?

[Philippe Plantier]

Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> Hi, it looks like we've been able to close most of the annoying bugs that 
> affected the 0.9.0 release.
>
> We just miss a fix for this one:
> * units not yet included in help (encountered_units) when offered as upgrade
>
> If nobody can have a look at it, I'll try to fix it tonight.
>
> After this one is fixed we are ready to release, unless I've missed anything 
> important the last two days (I've been without Internet access). Well, I 
> would also like to have a more reasonable "campaign download" dialog before 
> releasing.
>
> We should re-run update-po to have the _("Screenshot") string in the pot 
> files, and translators will have two days until release.
>
> Any ideas, changes, whatever to the "plan"?

The main problems I see with this plan are that :

1/ the parser error strings are disabled. This is bad ; the parser 
syntax has changed and user-campaign editors will have to fix them. 
Without error messages, debugging them will be very hard.

2/ the fixes to the preprocessor seem to break some macro-heavy user 
campaigns, like Wesvoid*. The problem is that there is no easy way to 
fix this - and thus, no way to tell the users how to fix their campaigns.

I could take a look at it, but this is silene's code and maybe he is 
currently busy working on it; I do not want to make conflicting changes.

Anyway, given the current state of the code, I do not think we can 
release. Some decision has to be taken.

Cheers,

Ayin

* I did not produce a bugreport yet, my bad. However, the bug seems to 
occur when there are some macros without end-of-line, possibly into 
other macros. In such cases, the #line preprocessor directives cause 
extraneous line breaks to be added inside the expanded macros, which 
breaks parsing.