Z88dk: Freeze a nightly and release?

[suborb]

It's been a year and there's been some great new features that have been added:

• The mostly ieee maths library
• 8080 support
• Gameboy support
• sdcc 4.0.0

It's relatively quiet at the moment so now seems like a good time to release - any objections?

The other question is version number. I'm minded just to go to 2.0 and then step up to 2.1 - we could be on 1.99X for a while otherwise.

[Xalior]

You make a release announcement that goes “2.0, C compiler,adds gameboy” you’ll get a LOT more of a pick up by retro coverage sites than a point release, too ;-)

[feilipu]

I’ve nothing in the backlog, (except minor possible fixes for a LUT Module for RC2014) and everything seems to be working as expected. So a good time afaik.

Quite like SDCC team’s stable big number plan. So 2.0.0 would be right.

SpectrumNext is shipping soon, so there needs to be a release for that, too. People will want an anchor release to install.

I would like to see the big library reorganisation later, and that might break some things for a while. And then also better handling of 3rd party libraries.

[feilipu]

Yes, added GameBoy, RomWBW, and improved SpectrumNext, RC2014 support.
Covering all the big devices in the news these days.

[pauloscustodio]

Ok for a 2.0 release.

[suborb]

Cool, I think the changelog is up-to-date so I'll take a cut and promote tomorrow evening.

I'm not the biggest (if at all) external forum user so if someone else wants to take on the announcements outside of the z88dk.org forum then that would be appreciated.

[Xalior]

I'm not the biggest (if at all) external forum user so if someone else wants to take on the announcements outside of the z88dk.org forum then that would be appreciated.

I’m one of the admins of the ZX Z88DK facebook user group, so happy to reproduce your announce there :-D

-Dx

[feilipu]

I can cover RC2014 and RetroBrew.

Doesn't @aralbrec have SpectrumNext contacts?
They're shipping in just a few days, so if he was able to get into any final pre-shipping announcement it would be great. Otherwise I can put a note on the SpectrumNext forum.

[suborb]

It is done, hopefully it works :)

[suborb]

And it didn't quite work....bugs:

• #1399 - zsdcpp was incorrectly named (on osx)
• #1394 - (Classic) +zx didn't handle the enter key
• #1397 - the compiler ldexp() implementation was buggy
• c_ plotting functions vanished for wide graphics targets
• (classic) +svi generic console was broken
• lut API for rc2014 had a typo

[feilipu]

... and I mistyped an "i". 😢

[feilipu]

Related, I pushed a bunch of (hopefully related) issues into the v2.1 project.
The two things are:

• new library reorganisation
• function trimming --ffunction-sections

Not sure if these are the preferred topics to have. Perhaps a new "question" issue for the contents of 2.1 appropriate?