Release Jed 0.99.18-1

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt at hetnet.nl> [2006-05-17 23:09]:

> The .jedstate.db file can be read with the gdbm module, but since it only
> contains some information that would be purged anyway after some time (a
> week in the case of gdbmrecent.sl) do you think it's worth the trouble to
> convert one database to the other?

jedstate has a mechanism for purging old entries that is different from
that of gdbmrecent.  As far as I understand, every time gdbmrecent.sl is
loaded, it will purge entries in ~/.recent_db which are older than one
week, that amount of time being hardcoded in the source.

jedstate comes with a program (/usr/bin/jedstate) which is used for
purging the old entries, usually used as a cron job.  This means that
users can choose the age of the entries that should be purged.  It would
be interesting to make the cutoff date customizable in gdbmrecent.  Do
you think you can do it, Paul?

I still think that a conversion script is interesting, as a courtesy to
our users who will upgrade to jed_0.99.18-1 and will have their jedstate
package broken.

-- 
Rafael