Re: [fractdev] Patch 6 to Fractint version 20.4
(I actually meant to post this here in fractdev, not that it matters that I posted to the fractint list.) First, for lurkers, Jonathan and I met on June 15th in Iowa while I was on my way to my mother's memorial service in Minnesota. My wife and I had dinner with Jonathan, his wife, and his daughter. We had a great time. We've only met one time before quite a few years ago when Jonathan and his family drove all the way from Cedar Rapids to highway 35 north of Des Moines to meet us. This time we headed east and met up in Jonathan's home in a northeaster Cedar Rapids suburb. The main decision from our conversation was to release fractint, xfractint, and winfract at essentially the current patchlevel. You've done a tremendous amount of work getting three versions synched up (more or less), truly amazing! Some questions for Jonathan: 1. What version? The last official release was 20.0. The help file mentions versions like 20.4, or did you mean 20.04. Is the next version 20.1? Or 20.5? or since nearly a decade has gone by, maybe a major version to 21.0 is justified :-). 2. If we follow the style of previous releases, we should consolidate the patchelevel change history in the revision history and remove references to patches. I could do this, though you would need to check it. 3. I need to very quickly decide about the new fractal type that you know I am working on. 4. Have there been any additions to debugfla.txt? It mentions being complete as of version 20. I'm sure there are more questions that I'll think of later. Tim
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Tim,
(I actually meant to post this here in fractdev, not that it matters that I posted to the fractint list.)
As you may have gathered (and I tried to tell you), I'm not listing to the fractint list.
The main decision from our conversation was to release fractint, xfractint, and winfract at essentially the current patchlevel.
You've done a tremendous amount of work getting three versions synched up (more or less), truly amazing!
Thanks.
Some questions for Jonathan:
1. What version? The last official release was 20.0. The help file mentions versions like 20.4, or did you mean 20.04. Is the next version 20.1? Or 20.5? or since nearly a decade has gone by, maybe a major version to 21.0 is justified :-).
20.5 would be appropriate. Using 21.0 would imply some attempt at further development. Although it's not out of the question, it is extremely unlikely.
2. If we follow the style of previous releases, we should consolidate the patchelevel change history in the revision history and remove references to patches. I could do this, though you would need to check it.
That would be fine. A lot of those patch descriptions don't say anything. Which was fine when we were using diffs, since it was easy to look at the changes. Not so useful anymore.
3. I need to very quickly decide about the new fractal type that you know I am working on.
That's a tough one!
4. Have there been any additions to debugfla.txt? It mentions being complete as of version 20.
Since version 20, it looks like three lines have been added and one deleted. It should be complete. I don't recall having added any. You added one recently. Jonathan
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