2.4.9 release, 2.5.0 plans

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

>>> I don't know about getting a release out in the next week. It doesn't look
>>> like anyone else is going to write the "feature table" feature, and since
>>> there are a few wrinkles there (starting with I haven't ever studied the
>>> xml backend) I don't think I'll be able to get it done this week.
>>
>> Yes, it doesn't look like anyone else is planning on writing the "feature
>> table". In that case, I'd like to propose to have a 2.4.9 release in any case
>> rather soon, and have a 2.4.10 with the "feature table" feature (no pun
>> intended) in January or February. We're not in a hurry here, after all.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Geert

I just implemented this in trunk (see r21767).  Hopefully we can port
this back to 2.4.  Let me know what you think.

I tested this by manually adding data to my slots table.  If you
(manually) add this to your book slots table it will cause an error to
get printed and the file doesn't load:

<book:slots>
  <slot>
    <slot:key>features</slot:key>
    <slot:value type="frame">
      <slot>
        <slot:key>test</slot:key>
        <slot:value type="string">Test Feature</slot:value>
      </slot>
    </slot:value>
  </slot>
</book:slots>

I added this between the book:id and gnc:count-data in my test file.

-derek

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