Maintainer alert: Perl inxi 2.9.01 is looking good for maybe early week of

2018-03-19 release. I'm putting the last issue requests on the last forums,
so assuming no real further bugs found, expect Perl inxi 2.9.01 to hit around
Monday or Tuesday. If any bugs are found, of course, those will be fixed before
release of the new Perl inxi.

Basically, if you want to see if you can find bugs, this is the time to do it, not
AFTER release. I've posted on many forums, and have given the various distros a
chance to help squash the bugs their users might see, some have been fantastic
(AntiX, you were the best by far), others, not so much. Their loss in the latter
case since the purpose of beta testing is to find bugs before, not after, release.

If you want to see the differences in recommends, and dependencies, grab pinxi
development branch here:
wget -O pinxi https://github.com/smxi/inxi/raw/inxi-perl/pinxi
or:
git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch inxi-perl --single-branch

and run: pinxi --recommends

The main thing I'd strongly urge all maintainers to add, for long term stability
and speed and reliability, is dig, which can be used if present to get very fast,
reliable, WAN IP information.

All of the other recommends are pretty much the same, for graphics, xdpyinfo,
xrandr, and glxinfo. For networking, ip or ifconfig, along with dig. For all usb
related identification, lsusb, unfortunately, I wish I could get rid of that tool,
it's very slow, but I can't. The --recommends output shows the complete set.

Obviously, Bash and Gawk are no longer recommends, nor are the tools like grep,
sed, tr, wc, etc, all those are done with Perl, so any shell plus Perl 5.08 or
newer Perl 5.x is all that's really required, beyond normal system reporting
tools like lspci etc.

For json/xml export, two Perl modules are needed, again, see --recommends

README.txt

@@ -1,20 +1,32 @@
 README for inxi - a command line system information tool
 
-NOTE: there is a feature freeze on inxi 2.3.xx development. All 
+NOTE: Maintainer alert: Perl inxi 2.9.01 is looking good for maybe early 
-current development is on the 2.9.00-xxx-p branch, which is nearing
+week of 2018-03-19 release. I'm putting the last issue requests on 
-final release state (as of patch -0406-p). Once I view 2.9.00-xxx-p 
+the last forums, so assuming no real further bugs found, expect Perl
-as feature complete or better vs inxi 2.3.xx, it will become the 
+inxi 2.9.01 to hit around Monday or Tuesday. If bugs found, of course,
-current master branch of inxi.
+those will be fixed before release.
 
 =====================================================================
-If you do not want to get the full master with gz history data, which
+BASIC GIT BRANCH:
-gets bigger every year, you can clone inxi current using the: 
+If you do not want to get the full master branch with gz history data, 
+which gets bigger every year, you can clone inxi current using the: 
 master-plain branch. 
 
 git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch master-plain --single-branch
 
 The master-plain branch does not have inxi.1.gz or inxi.tar.gz, and 
 so does not suffer from the size inflation that master has. 
+=====================================================================
+LEGACY BRANCH:
+If you'd like to look at or check out the Gawk/Bash version of inxi, 
+you can find it here, at the inxi-legacy branch:
+
+git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch inxi-legacy --single-branch
+
+This version will not be maintained, and it's unlikely that I will 
+spend any time on it in the future, but it is there in case it's of
+use or interest to anyone.
+
 =====================================================================
 SUPPORT INFO:
 

inxi.changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,49 @@
+=====================================================================================
+Version: 2.3.56
+Patch Version: 00
+Script Date: 2018-02-26
+-----------------------------------
+Changes:
+-----------------------------------
+Maintainer alert: Perl inxi 2.9.01 is looking good for maybe early week of 
+2018-03-19 release. I'm putting the last issue requests on the last forums, 
+so assuming no real further bugs found, expect Perl inxi 2.9.01 to hit around 
+Monday or Tuesday. If any bugs are found, of course, those will be fixed before 
+release of the new Perl inxi.
+
+Basically, if you want to see if you can find bugs, this is the time to do it, not
+AFTER release. I've posted on many forums, and have given the various distros a 
+chance to help squash the bugs their users might see, some have been fantastic
+(AntiX, you were the best by far), others, not so much. Their loss in the latter 
+case since the purpose of beta testing is to find bugs before, not after, release.
+
+If you want to see the differences in recommends, and dependencies, grab pinxi 
+development branch here:
+wget -O pinxi https://github.com/smxi/inxi/raw/inxi-perl/pinxi
+or:
+git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch inxi-perl --single-branch
+
+and run: pinxi --recommends
+
+The main thing I'd strongly urge all maintainers to add, for long term stability
+and speed and reliability, is dig, which can be used if present to get very fast, 
+reliable, WAN IP information.
+
+All of the other recommends are pretty much the same, for graphics, xdpyinfo,
+xrandr, and glxinfo. For networking, ip or ifconfig, along with dig. For all usb 
+related identification, lsusb, unfortunately, I wish I could get rid of that tool,
+it's very slow, but I can't. The --recommends output shows the complete set.
+
+Obviously, Bash and Gawk are no longer recommends, nor are the tools like grep, 
+sed, tr, wc, etc, all those are done with Perl, so any shell plus Perl 5.08 or
+newer Perl 5.x is all that's really required, beyond normal system reporting 
+tools like lspci etc.
+
+For json/xml export, two Perl modules are needed, again, see --recommends
+
+-----------------------------------
+-- Harald Hope - Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:44:07 -0700
+
 =====================================================================================
 Version: 2.3.56
 Patch Version: 00