Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.12 and 1.0.5 Unleashed!!
Monday, June 27th, 2005Today I did the releases of both the gtk1 (1.0.5) and gtk2 (1.9.12) versions of Sylpheed-Claws. The 1.9.12 release I tagged 'the "Welcome Back IMAP" release', as Colin has really brought the IMAP support back under control and whipped it into shape. He also produced a plethora of bug fixes, so much so, that you might have called it the Sylpheed-Colino release!
Anyway, the releases took some time to put together, (as so much has changed, (meaning that the release notes take that much longer to compile)), but the process was speeded up a little towards the end by my use of ReleaseForge, (an alternative to the SourceForge File Release System (FRS)). I didn't use its full power, (and, besides, it failed for the 1.9.12 release due to some bad character malarkey in the ChangeLog, (a problem that I didn't even take a note about, so close was I to the goal at the time, that I couldn't delay any longer to (try to) resolve problems), but it worked for 1.0.5), and I just used it to complete the SourceForge file release page, (which is great in itself, as (having 6 files per release) I avoided having to update the page (almost) countless times). I will trial the SF news submission next time around. Incidently, I couldn't trial the Freshmeat announcement feature, as it wouldn't accept my username or password, so I did that in the regular fashion. Still, I think this will prove useful, and I'll continue to use it.
