[2705] in BarnOwl Developers
New barnowl-beta build (1.7dev)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A Benjamin)
Thu Oct 7 11:07:21 2010
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:07:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: David A Benjamin <davidben@MIT.EDU>
To: barnowl-dev@mit.edu
Hey all,
Since it's been 5 months since the major release, it's probably about
time we get this moving. I've pushed a new build, 0.7dev-390-g12a6616,
to barnowl-beta on all supported platforms. There wasn't a new branch
and tag or anything because there's enough going on this release that
we possibly should let this cook a bit in barnowl-beta before actually
declaring an RC. Also, I forgot.
So, I encourage you to test this build by running 'barnowl-beta' from
the barnowl locker.
Some new work in 1.7 to play with:
* The editwin now supports soft line-wrapping. edit:maxwrapcols and
edit:maxfillcols no longer forcibly take the width of the screen
into account.
* owl_window got merged. This should hopefully allow us much more
flexibility in the UI in the future. One visible side effect is that
the popwin should now resize appropriately when your terminal
does. Drawing should also hopefully be less flickery where resizes
are involved.
* smartnarrow should work better now with CC'd personals and Jabber
messages with subject.
* When displaying keymaps, show now displays ancestor keymaps as well.
* Tabs in incoming messages display better.
* It is now possible to search in popless windows. Default keybindings
should configure /, ?, n, and N to act similarly to less. In
addition, binding : to popless:start-command will give access to an
experimental command-line within the popless. (Disabled by default
because it's not very useful, and most commands don't make sense.)
* There is now a built-in random_zephyr_signature function. Set
zsigfunc to BarnOwl::random_zephyr_signature and place your zsigs in
~/.zsigs.
* Anything else I might have missed.
Development should continue as normal on the 'master' branch. I
haven't bothered to branch a release-1.7 yet for now. I guess if
anyone has something really huge to land, we can go ahead and do
that. Doesn't look like BarnOwl's moving significantly fast enough
right now that we need to be exceedingly formal here.
Yes, I am more rambly than Nelson. :-)
David
