ooRexx 4.1.1 Is Now Available

Mark Miesfeld

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May 28, 2012, 1:03:18 AM5/28/12

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The Open Object Rexx Development Team is proud to announce the
availability of ooRexx 4.1.1. This is a bug fix only release, with 35
to 40 bugs fixed.

The Windows and Linux versions of ooRexx are available immediately on
SourceForge. You can download ooRexx 4.1.1 from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/4.1.1/

The documentation has not as yet been put on SourceForge. It will be
uploaded in the next few days to be available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx-docs/4.1.1/

Download the CHANGES document, in the ooRex files area, to see the
list of fixes. The readme.pdf file contains additional information
concerning the release.

If you discover bugs please open a bug report at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=119701&atid=684730

The ooRexx Development Team

Swifty

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May 28, 2012, 3:05:02 AM5/28/12

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On Sun, 27 May 2012 22:03:18 -0700 (PDT), Mark Miesfeld
<mies...@gmail.com> wrote:

>This is a bug fix only release, with 35
>to 40 bugs fixed.

My REXX says it is 4.1.1 from Feb 26, so a late beta or an RC.

To work out the value of moving to 4.1.1 GA I'd need to know what
release I'm currently on, then find a list of bugs fixed between those
two releases.

Is this possible?

I'm in the process of teaching myself SVN. If your repository is SVN
compatible, I could try to find my own answer; it would be an
interesting learning exercise.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

Mark Miesfeld

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Jun 8, 2012, 10:50:35 AM6/8/12

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On May 28, 12:05 am, Swifty <steve.j.sw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2012 22:03:18 -0700 (PDT), Mark Miesfeld
>

> <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >This is a bug fix only release, with 35
> >to 40 bugs fixed.
>
> My REXX says it is 4.1.1 from Feb 26, so a late beta or an RC.
>
> To work out the value of moving to 4.1.1 GA I'd need to know what
> release I'm currently on, then find a list of bugs fixed between those
> two releases.
>
> Is this possible?

It is certainly possible, the ooRexx source code repository is a
subversion (svn) repository. Use your svn client to check out the
4.1.1 release branch. The svn URL for check out is:

https://oorexx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oorexx/main/releases/4.1.1/trunk

Once checked out, go to the root of the source tree and execute: svn
log

You get a log output like this:

C:\work.ooRexx\wc\main.4.1.1.release>svn log | more
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7795 | miesfeld | 2012-05-16 08:26:45 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2012) | 1
line

Move ooRexx 4.1.1 files to relase tree
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7691 | wdashley | 2012-03-20 09:40:19 -0700 (Tue, 20 Mar 2012) | 2
lines

Fix rpm spec file so that Rexx applications can be linked once ooRexx
has been installed.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7679 | miesfeld | 2012-03-16 07:14:04 -0700 (Fri, 16 Mar 2012) | 1
line

Update the fixed bug list for 4.1.1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7678 | miesfeld | 2012-03-16 07:09:21 -0700 (Fri, 16 Mar 2012) | 1
line

3506001 ListChoice fails if 16 items passed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7670 | bigrixx | 2012-03-15 03:22:19 -0700 (Thu, 15 Mar 2012) | 1
line

Fix failure in lines()
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7663 | bigrixx | 2012-03-14 06:46:33 -0700 (Wed, 14 Mar 2012) | 1
line

fix default return value problem
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7653 | miesfeld | 2012-03-12 18:01:20 -0700 (Mon, 12 Mar 2012) | 1
line

Update the fixed bugs list in the 4.1 fixes branch
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7652 | miesfeld | 2012-03-12 17:47:30 -0700 (Mon, 12 Mar 2012) | 1
line

2933987 two rxapi.exe tasks - don't start rxapi if it is already
running
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r7642 | bigrixx | 2012-03-10 13:45:27 -0800 (Sat, 10 Mar 2012) | 1
line

[ oorexx-Bugs-3501117 ] Crash at end of program

...

The "Move ooRexx 4.1.1 files to relase tree" line shows exactly when
the beta / rc was converted to the release.

The active developers generally commit a bug fix, fix, as a single
commit and mark it. This is a convention, not a strict rule. But you
can pretty much count on it. So you see that Rick commited a bug fix
on 3/10 (oorexx-Bugs-3501117) and I commited a bug fix on 3/12
(2933987 two rxapi.exe tasks) The bug number lets you look up exactly
what the bug was.

> I'm in the process of teaching myself SVN. If your repository is SVN
> compatible, I could try to find my own answer; it would be an
> interesting learning exercise.

Go for it. The next thing you know you'll be checking out trunk and
doing your own builds.

--
Mark Miesfeld

Swifty

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Jun 9, 2012, 3:11:42 AM6/9/12

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 07:50:35 -0700 (PDT), Mark Miesfeld
<mies...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Go for it. The next thing you know you'll be checking out trunk and
>doing your own builds.

I'm still working on hello.c so some way to go yet. Thanks!

U.Zinngrebe

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Jun 9, 2012, 11:49:12 AM6/9/12

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Swifty wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 07:50:35 -0700 (PDT), Mark Miesfeld
> <mies...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Go for it. The next thing you know you'll be checking out trunk and
>>doing your own builds.
>
> I'm still working on hello.c so some way to go yet. Thanks!
>

Go for it. It is much easier than it seems.

The five commands below should provide your own rpm.

Cheers, Uli

(who gave up working on hello.c)

svn co https://oorexx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oorexx/main/trunk ~/oorexx

cd ~/oorexx/main/trunk

./bootstrap

./configure --disable-static

make rpm