10 Years of Zoph: Zoph 0.9 and future development

Immediately after the release of v0.8, Jeroen starts working on v0.9. The first thing he wants to change is the way zoph handles character encoding. Up until now, every translation used it's own encoding. This caused, however, major problems for users who would use different translations for different users: a text encoded with one encoding would be sent to another user's webbrowser, with a different encoding. This change gets released as Zoph 0.8.1.

Secondly, he wants to change the part of Zoph that has been causing the majority of support requests: importing photos. Jeroen has rewritten almost all of the import code, to make it easier to use and maintain. In the new webimport, a user can upload multiple photos simultaniously, a progressbar of the upload is shown and you will see a thumbnail of the photo before you actually import it.

This is on the list for Zoph 0.8.2. A large part of the development is finished now, but testing and wrapping up open ends is taking up a lot of time.

Zoph 1.0

So, will the release after 0.9 be 1.0?

I don't think so, there's a lot on my list that I'd like to implement or improve in Zoph before I will take the beta label off and consider it a finished product. One of the most important things that really need to change is the fact that you need to be a bit of a techie to install Zoph. I suppose the release after 0.9 will be 0.10, but maybe after that...

Jeroen Roos