From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: When is 1.8 going to be released Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:09:53 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16159.55969.896460.534700@localhost.localdomain> References: <16156.19438.587414.84607@localhost.localdomain> <87n0f6ohar.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Reply-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059052372 21537 80.91.224.249 (24 Jul 2003 13:12:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:12:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 15:12:45 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19fftk-0005ai-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:12:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ffrO-0002ux-5b for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ffr1-0002qk-Le for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ffr0-0002qY-BB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ffqz-0002qS-HV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain.xs4all.nl (byrd.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6OD9qnU059870; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:09:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87n0f6ohar.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2646 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2646 mvo@zagadka.de writes: > > Just wondering what time-frame you had in mind for releasing 1.8, > > I myself don't have any time-frame yet and I don't feel like we need > to hurry. But that's just me. I'm certainly looking forward to 1.8, > it's going to have some very good things in it. On 2nd thought, I also do not have a particular hurry. However, Jan is getting annoyed at having to patch GUILE to get it compiling on cygwin. Who is working on the 1.6 branch maintenance? > - Implement scm replacements for all of GH > > This includes designing the replacement first and writing > documentation, both tutorial style and reference style. I don't quite get this. Where is the exact problem here? What's wrong with replacing gh_ with scm_ (or scm_c_ ) in the .c and .h files? > - Make 1.8 backwards compatible again with 1.6. > > This should be nearly done, but needs more testing. > > I want to work on these items when I have finished my thesis, which > hopefully happens in the next three to four weeks. Knock on wood... OK, hang in there, you'll survive. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel