Haven't published a new release in a while

[PullJosh]

@towerofnix and @adroitwhiz I realized we have made a ton of changes without publishing a release to npm. I'm not sure how that happened. Is there anything blocking us from making one right now so that users can get all the little improvements we've made?

[towerofnix]

We're assuming 1.5.1 is the latest release, on both NPM and the Leopard website, right?

Here's a handy search - here's everything merged since 1.5.1:

• Typescript improvements for sb-edit and first implementation for Leopard
• Housekeeping (dependency updates & miscellaneous) for both Leopard and sb-edit
• toLeopard: Serialize initial rotation style sb-edit#118
• toLeopard: Code style cleanup for blockToJS & related functions sb-edit#124

Most of these have no behavior changes, so there should be no danger at all in publishing an NPM release (and to the site) including them. leopard-js/sb-edit#118 is a fix for serializing the rotation style saved on sprites, which is good for conversion compatibility.

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Currently in-progress on sb-edit:

• toLeopard: Store # of times to repeat statically when it's a block sb-edit#122
  • Test project ready, pending on resolving name of "times" variable against custom arg names. (This isn't a lot of work, just been occupied elsewhere last few days.)
• toLeopard: Static number casting issues in equality operator + NaN leaking sb-edit#123
  • Implementation done, pending on writing a test project. (There are a lot of blocks to test, so this is going to be tedious to put together, but not challenging...)

Not yet started, but on our sooner-and-later todo list for sb-edit:

• toLeopard: Inconsistency when renaming variables with illegal characters sb-edit#120
  • Not a compatibility issue, but will help lots of variables serialize nicer.
• Investigate toLeopard: Recognize hex notation (0xff0000) as a number sb-edit#9 (comment)
• Eventually investigate fromSb3: Auto-coercing "number/text" procedure inputs into numbers loses data sb-edit#112

We'll get to leopard-js/sb-edit#122 quite soon. Test project for leopard-js/sb-edit#123 will likely take a bit longer. The other todos don't have any times set in stone yet, but we do have a path forward for leopard-js/sb-edit#120; the others are probably a ways off.

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Our main "job" (volunteer / long-term passion project, lol) is a wide berth of data, code, community and maintenance work on @hsmusic (https://hsmusic.wiki/), so Leopard generally comes second to that and/or other stuff that we're busy with IRL. We care about Leopard a lot, obviously!! Just got responsibilities elsewhere, as most anyone does. ^^

[PullJosh]

Thank you! This was a very helpful lay of the land. I didn't know you could search for all PRs across repos like that. I've published new releases of leopard and sb-edit that include all our changes. I'm hopeful that shipping typescript types for Leopard will be useful to people.

Leopard generally comes second to [hsmusic] and/or other stuff that we're busy with IRL. We care about Leopard a lot, obviously!! Just got responsibilities elsewhere, as most anyone does. ^^

Of course! I have been surprised and very appreciative of how much you and @adroitwhiz have been willing to help, but I never expect anything. Please continue to prioritize everything you need to prioritize over Leopard, and only contribute if/when it's fun. 😄