[Coco] NitrOS-9 releases [Was: C compiler crashes VCC with Nitros9]

[Tormod Volden]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 03 October 2013 15:00:24 Bill Pierce did opine:
>> His problem is his nitros9 version (3.2.8). and the Vcc emulator. Vcc
>> and nitros9 3.2.8 had problems getting along for some reason. Wasn't
>> 3.2.8 the one that sat in the repo for the past 5 years until it
>> attracted some cockyroaches?
>
> Something like that. ;-) And one of the reasons I keep copy's of old repo's
> going back to the turn of the century.  And some of that goes back to 1993.
>
>> I think I remember having a problem in
>> 3.2.8 with C and that's why I searched and found 3.2.9. Now I got my
>> custom C setup and I have no problems... :-)
>
> 3.2.9 is several years old, and IMO should have been bumped to 3.3.0 even
> before the lwtools conversion was even thought of.  But its not my boat to
> row.
>
> Now its totally confusing as to which code someone has when they say 3.2.9.

I don't see that 3.2.9 has been released yet? The latest release in
sourceforge is 3.2.8. The ChangeLog in the repo lists 3.2.9 but this
item is still being added to. I might be missing something, and if
there are some 3.2.9 floating around, official or not, it would make
sense to make the next one 3.2.10 to avoid further confusion.

Small things I would have liked to see fixed before a release:
- the lwtools branch merged back to the default branch. I hope Boisy
can at least give his opinion on this. I am not too familar with
mercurial but I think it should be straight forward.
- the Dragon images. Is anyone here using NitrOS-9 on a Dragon and can
test latest builds? The acia51 module seems to be missing. Is there
another driver for the serial port? And the disk images have run out
of space so someone has to advice on that.
- would be nice if someone fixed up pacos9 to build with lwtools.

Tormod