Hello, it's been a long time since the last jigdo release, more than a year! For various reasons, I haven't had as much time as before to dedicate to it - still, development never stopped completely, and I'm looking forward to continuing to support and develop it.
This is mostly a bugfix release. Most important news: - Includes a workaround for big files (DVD images) with GCC 3.0 to 3.3. This allows DVD support for some non-i386 Debian arches, and makes it no longer necessary to compile with GCC 2.95 for DVD support. - DVD support for Windows! However, this is UNTESTED (due to lack of space on my Windows partitions) - please test and report about success/failure! (CD image creation tested and working.) - Numerous bugfixes - Quite some work on the GUI, but it's still not usable New official .deb packages will take until Wednesday or so - this has been a busy weekend... :) Jigdo homepage: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/> Source code: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-0.7.1.tar.bz2> Statically linked binary: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-bin-0.7.1.tar.bz2> Windows binary: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-win-0.7.1.zip> Downloading Debian CDs: <http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/> The detailed changelog entry: - Workaround for problems with big files (DVD images) when compiling with GCC 3.0 to 3.3. - Fix for Windows version: "wget: BUG: unknown command `timeout'" no longer occurs (was spurious anyway, but irritated many people) - Windows version compiled with GCC 3.4, can hopefully create big files (DVD images) - removed "too many files missing, won't attempt to download them from fallback mirror" logic in jigdo-lite because it was broken - .jigdo file format: Semantics of multiple [Image] sections have changed: Formerly, the idea was that one .jigdo could provide multiple images, but the idea never caught on and the idea "one .jigdo => one image" is firmly planted in people's minds now. The original incentive of allowing multiple [Image] sections was to make it possible to avoid duplication of .jigdo data, by providing all 7 CDs and the single DVD in one .jigdo. This duplication can now be avoided by [Include]ing the CDs' files from the DVD's, because all except the first [Image] section are ignored. - Fixed minor bug in jigdo-lite; it would sometimes abort even if no error code was returned by jigdo-file - GUI: Added code for processing of .jigdo files and [Include] - GUI: Added simple caching of downloaded data during .jigdo downloads - Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-image" (Steve McIntyre): Failed assertion `nextAlignedOff>off' and huge .template with >4GB image. - Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-template": Sometimes *incorrectly* reports: "You have found a bug". (Maxim Reznik) - Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-image": Handle I/O errors more gracefully (Brian Bennett) - Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-image" (Andreas Krüger): Do not allocate on the stack an array whose size is the number of matched files in the image. This gave, er, "funny" results with tens of thousands of matches... <slap> - Added comfortable debugging aids ("debug(fmt,...)", --debug=...) - Various documentation updates (manpages, Hacking.txt, changelog;-P) - Fix for build problems if size_t is 64 bits wide - Various fixes to allow compilation with GCC 3.4 - Added unit tests for many parts of the code, with support in depend.awk - Fixed bug in html-beautify.awk - Vanity meter reports 26000 lines of code in 120 files Have fun! Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯
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