[schilytools] [RELEASE] 2024-03-21

[Robert Clausecker]

Dear schilytools users,

Due to a typo I had to reroll the distfile.
The corrected distfile is found at the same location, but has checksum

bbe43e9e007cde22710e76bdfe5b2cbe9e70e18a8df9a6740daf9b46aeeccc927c62cf302b9f93654f07031dcd0e490e

I apologise for the inconvenience.

Yours,

The schilytools maintainer
Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su>

Am Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 02:28:17PM +0100 schrieb Robert Clausecker:
> Dear schilytools users,
> 
> I am proud to present the 2024-03-21 release of schilytools.
> This release has improved progress output for mkisofs as well
> as some bug fixes and refactors.  We hope that you find it useful.
> 
> Please obtain the release tarball schily-2024-03-21.ta.bz from one
> of the hosts listed below.  The SHA3-384 checksum is:
> 
> 739dafcfde93e393fc8ab972ee1c020f42e654967c33d9849488697760b51884853a2c746b9156972869b3b73d6f1e2c
> 
> New features with AN-2024-03-21:
> 
> Schilytools is developed on Codeberg.  Please report bugs and send
> patches to our bug tracker:
> 
> 	https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools
> 
> or to our mailing list schilytools at mlists.in-berlin.de:
> 
> 	https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de
> 
> Obtain release tarballs from:
> 
> 	http://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
> 	ftp://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
> 	rsync://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
> 	https://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
> 	http://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
> 	https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
> 	http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
> 	ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
> 	rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
> 	https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
> 	http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
> 	ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
> 	rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
> 	https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
> 	http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
> 	ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
> 	rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/schilytools/
> 
> If you have previously reported bugs to Jörg Schilling and they have not
> been fixed, please report them again.  We do not have access to Jörg's
> private emails and do not know what you have reported.
> 
> NEW FEATURES:
> 
> -	RULES: add symlinks for avbarm/riscv/amd64 for NetBSD.
> 	Submitted by: Matthew Green.
> 
> -	Remove the register keyword from C++ sources.  This keyword has
> 	been removed from the C++ language with C++17 and provides no
> 	benefit on most toolchains.  Discard the keyword from all C++
> 	sources to enable a build with the new standard.
> 	Submitted by: Dennis Clarke.
> 
> -	mkisofs: produce less scrollback when logging progress to tty.
> 	Previously, the "xxx.xx% done, estimated finish ..." message was
> 	verbosely printed onto a new line each time it appears.  If
> 	output goes to a TTY and -gui is not supplied, we now print the
> 	message only once, updating it as the program progresses.
> 	Reported by: Michael Dexter.
> 
> FUTURE DIRECTIONS:
> 
> -	Schilytools contains pxupgrade, a dummy for a closed-source
> 	component.  While the source code of this component is available
> 	to the maintainer, it cannot be published due to an existing NDA
> 	with Plextor.  Depending on whether we can get this NDA lifted
> 	or not, the pxupgrade dummy code may either be replaced with the
> 	real source code of the tool or removed altogether.
> 
> -	With development of the p7zip(1) utility having ceased in 2016
> 	and the 7-zip project having ported the reference implementation
> 	to UNIX-like systems, many packagers now ship a 7z(1) command
> 	instead of p7zip(1).  Future star distributions may ship an
> 	/etc/default/star file configuring P7ZIP_CMD to refer to 7z(1)
> 	instead of the default p7zip(1).  This will not affect existing
> 	installations unless the configuration is updated.
> 
> -	Configuring compression/decompression helpers may be implemented
> 	for DOS (DJGPP) in an upcoming version.
> 
> CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS VERSION:
> 
> Robert CLAUSECKER <fuz at fuz.su>
> Matthew GREEN <mrg at NetBSD.org>
> Dennis CLARKE <dclarke at blastwave.org>
> 
> The schilytools maintainer
> Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su>
> 
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