[syslinux] Syslinux-4.06-pre14

[Ady]

Subject:        	Re: [syslinux] Syslinux-4.06-pre14
Date sent:      	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:35:59 +0100

> 
> If you have any suggestions for clarification, please share. I am also
> unsure how the text could be improved.
> 

Well, for those that I don't understand, it's a little bit more 
difficult for me to suggest how to clarify them :). For example, what 
is "tree support" on com32? What is the user supposed to be able to 
override now in EXTLINUX? If the user doesn't understand it, he won't 
be able to use such new feature either.

To be clear, I don't expect for a full explanation to be included in 
the changelog. And maybe any developer (not just the ones involved) 
can understand those phrases; I don't know. I just think that, maybe, 
some less "cryptic" phrases could be added somewhere (and who knows, 
maybe some example in the wiki too), so some non-developer user could 
actually take advantage of newly added features.

> > Additionally, during the 4.06 development, there was an improvement 
> > for SYSLINUX about handling some relative paths (which were already 
> > handled correctly by ISOLINUX). I don't know if it is worth 
> > mentioning in the changelog (or maybe it is already part of the 
> > jargon in there I don't understand?).
> 
> Do you know what specifically was changed? I'm afraid I don't recall.
> 

It started after 4.06-pre7, up to pre11 included. Some threads 
related to it STARTED at:
   http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-June/017690.html   
   http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-June/017705.html   

Basically, SYSLINUX was supporting limited relative paths with one 
"../" (and maybe "../../"; I don't remember), and now paths such as 
"../../other_dir/" are also supported. ISOLINUX was already 
supporting such relative paths. Additionally, when pwd.c32 is used, 
instead of displaying the path in a relative notation (when relative 
paths were used in the cfg file), it always displays the absolute 
resulting path.

As I said, I don't know if it is worth mentioning in the changelog, 
or maybe some of those "cryptic" (for me) items already mentioned are 
related to this improvement.

Best Regards,
Ady.