[Phpmyadmin-devel] 2.6.0-rc2 schedule

[Marc Delisle]

Alexander M. Turek wrote:
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> Hi Marc & list,
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> Marc Delisle wrote:
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>>I suggest Sept. 6 for 2.6.0-rc2 release, and probably one week later
>>for 2.6.0-final.
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> September 6th for RC2 is fine for me, but I'd like to wait two weeks
> before we release a final, though.

OK for 2 weeks.
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>>Before -rc2 I plan to work on
>>- removing charset introducers and use CONVERT
>>- bug 1009791

This is done.

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> We should also do some testing on the new MySQL 4.1.4-gamma. Although I
> haven't encountered any (new) problems yet, I think we should ensure
> that we are really compatible to this one.

I did not see any problems under 4.1.4 here.

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>>About #1018081, as discussed with Alexander, maybe we should not
>>support MySQL 4.1.0
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> + 1 for dropping MySQL 4.1.0 support. 4.1.0 is just too experimental and
> on top of that some core functionalities haven been changed or extended
> since then, for example the character set environment variables (on
> which we have to rely) have been added in 4.1.1. Personally, I don't
> want to write compatibility code for a single experimental alpha version.
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>>and 4.1.1
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> 4.1.1 _should_ be OK, but I'm not sure if we should officially support
> that version.
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>>Also, we will have to make a decision about Safari support before
>>-final.
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> I don't like much the idea of working around problems of pre-final
> testing software.

I did not mean that the current Safari is not final, I meant supporting 
Safari in phpMyAdmin 2.6-0 (final).  Well, maybe Safari 1.2.3 final is 
not so final, after all :)
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>>Other bug reports do not appear show-stoppers to me.
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> I will also check if there are any possible showstoppers in the list.
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> Regards,
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> Alexander M. Turek