libpng release notes with CRLF; support of old OS

[Glenn Randers-Pehrson]

I received this off-list:

> 1. pngmem.c starts with "Borland DOS special memory handler" - maybe
> it's a bit obsolete now? At least for 1.4.0?

I don't know.

>
> 2. sourceforge does not show release notes anywhere of their pages
> anymore, they make people to actually download readme.txt like in good
> old days.
>
> The problem is that many people might just open it in Notepad instead
> of saving it. And Notepad can't handle LF line endings in libpng's
> readme.txt

I would prefer not to add *more* files (we already overwhelm SourceForge's
file-listing script), but maybe we could add a couple of small ones:

   libpng-x.y.z-RELEASENOTES.TXT (with CRLF, for notepad)
   libpng-x.y.z-RELEASENOTES.txt  (with newlines, for all others)

These wouldn't contain the entire README but just the latest
changes, e.g., from beta84 to beta85.

People who really want to know what is going on can browse the
GIT repository.

Glenn

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[Cosmin Truta]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
> I received this off-list:
>
>> 1. pngmem.c starts with "Borland DOS special memory handler" - maybe
>> it's a bit obsolete now? At least for 1.4.0?
>
> I don't know.

That is part of the 16-bit support. That should stay as long as the
16-bit support will stay -- hopefully, not forever.

>> 2. sourceforge does not show release notes anywhere of their pages
>> anymore, they make people to actually download readme.txt like in good
>> old days.

Maybe something is wrong in the libpng downloads section. I just
checked the OptiPNG release notes on SF, they're fine. But the libpng
release notes are missing, indeed.

>> The problem is that many people might just open it in Notepad instead
>> of saving it. And Notepad can't handle LF line endings in libpng's
>> readme.txt

Notepad + Internet Explorer can handle LF line endings. IE converts LF
to CRLF on the fly.

> I would prefer not to add *more* files (we already overwhelm SourceForge's
> file-listing script), but maybe we could add a couple of small ones:
>
>   libpng-x.y.z-RELEASENOTES.TXT (with CRLF, for notepad)
>   libpng-x.y.z-RELEASENOTES.txt  (with newlines, for all others)

That will clobber the downloads for people like me who download things
automatically and use case-insensitive file systems like Windows. One
will overwrite the other. Besides, everyone who has not read this
email will hardly have any clue on what's the deal with these two
files.

My advice: do nothing. Even on barebone Windows there are plenty of
solutions. IE+Notepad is just one of them. Using Wordpad instead of
Notepad is another. Getting that file from within the CRLF zip archive
is yet another solution. And I'm not even sure there aren't any other
choices besides the ones that I have already enumerated.

Best regards,
Cosmin

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[Glenn Randers-Pehrson]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Cosmin Truta <cosmin@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
>> I received this off-list:
ort will stay -- hopefully, not forever.
>
>>> 2. sourceforge does not show release notes anywhere of their pages
>>> anymore, they make people to actually download readme.txt like in good
>>> old days.
>
> Maybe something is wrong in the libpng downloads section. I just
> checked the OptiPNG release notes on SF, they're fine. But the libpng
> release notes are missing, indeed.

It is a side effect of the change from using the GUI to upload and label
the files with the new sftp to a directory.  I suppose I need to use the
GUI just to create release notes.  #:-(

Glenn

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