Re: [ANNOUNCE] exfatprogs-1.0.2 version released

From: 'Goldwyn Rodrigues'
Date: Thu Apr 23 2020 - 10:44:19 EST


Hi Namjae,

On 17:49 23/04, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> This is the second release of exfatprogs since the initial version(1.0.1).
> We have received various feedbacks and patches since the previous release
> and applied them in this release. Thanks for feedback and patches!
>
> According to Goldwyn's comments, We renamed the project name from
> exfat-utils to exfatprogs. However, There is an opinion that just renaming
> the name is not enough. Because the binary names(mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat)
> still are same with ones in current exfat-utils RPM package.
>
> If that's real problem, We are considering a long jump with 2.0.0 when adding
> repair feature.
>
> Any feedback is welcome!:)

I agree with Eric. We can add "Conflicts" flag to make sure there are
conflicting capabilities in packages.

>
> The major changes in this release:
> * Rename project name to exfatprogs.
> * label.exfat: Add support for label.exfat to set/get exfat volume label.
> * Replace iconv library by standard C functions mbstowcs() and wcrtomb().
> * Fix the build warnings/errors and add warning options.
> * Fix several bugs(memory leak, wrong endian conversion, zero out beyond end of file) and cleanup codes
> * Fix issues on big endian system and on 32bit system.
> * Add support for Android build system.
>
> The git tree is at:
> https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs
>
> The tarballs can be found at:
> https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/releases/tag/1.0.2
>

Can we follow the standard of source tarballs be
<projectname>-<version>.tar.gz? In this case, exfat-1.0.2.tar.gz
instead of 1.0.2.tar.gz?

--
Goldwyn