[gopher] Re: gopher 3.0.4 imminent

[Robert Hahn <rhahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, John

That's quite the list.  Thanks for your contributions.

Now, while I haven't pulled a copy of 3.0.4 from CVS yet, I've a 
question: I don't know how you did the rewrite, but I'd be interested 
to know if the steps you took rewriting the code resulted in 
rendering irrevalent the note about compiling in OS X under UFS...

-rh

>Hello,
>
>The release of Gopher 3.0.4 will probably be occuring tomorrow.  The
>major change in this release is the regex rewrite.  This has been a sore
>thumb of porting and should be in a much happier state now.  Please
>check out of CVS and let me know if it works for you.  I am hoping that
>this will finally solve the most onerous of the porting problems so that
>more work can be done on fun stuff.
>
>The full changelog reads thusly:
>
>gopher (3.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
>    * MAJOR rewrite of regex support.  This should make gopher
>      compile and work better on several platforms.
>    * Added regcomp and regree func checks to configure.in and
>      regenerated configure and config.h
>    * Removed the DOMAIN configure support, DOMAIN_NAME in gopherd,
>      backupdomain in Socket.c, etc.  This should prevent the
>no.domain.name
>      problem that people have been seeing.  Regenerated configure stuff.
>    * Added line for .png to gopherd.conf.in
>    * Added note about UFS builds on MacOS X to doc/PLATFORMS
>    * Added FAQ and modified debian/docs
>    * Updated gopherd.8 with information about type 'i'
>    * Fixed gopher's URL handling -- it was missing the type character.
>      Closes: #138337.
>    * Another regex change.  Let's hope this fixes things for Solaris.
>    * Fixed to properly calculated first arg to select in gopherd.c