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: 1.8 time frame? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:22:12 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16674.26868.240712.580260@byrd.xs4all.nl> References: <16671.35152.601522.558549@byrd.xs4all.nl> <87y8kgb7pu.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092774194 26089 80.91.224.253 (17 Aug 2004 20:23:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jantien@xs4all.nl, fodber@interware.hu, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 22:23:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BxAU3-0003B8-00 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:23:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxAYD-0004mv-Ok for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BxAY7-0004mg-J3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BxAY5-0004mT-Ux for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxAY5-0004mQ-SM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.24.35] (helo=smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BxATF-0000zR-FX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from byrd.xs4all.nl.byrd.xs4all.nl (byrd.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7HKMB85044736; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:22:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hanwen@xs4all.nl) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87y8kgb7pu.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:3971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3971 mvo@zagadka.de writes: > > What's the latest update on the status of the guile 1.8 release plan? > > It is getting closer, it's hard to say when it will arrive. I'm > working full-time on the new C API for data type conversions, and I > hope that I have strings and symbols nailed next week. The rest > should be simpler... I understand that you can't give a definite ETA, but is "closer" measured in weeks, months or quarter years? I have a very nasty heisenbug here, and I would rather not debug it, if possible. > > Have you considered moving to a regular release schedule (like the > > GNOME project does?). > > Hmm, my feeling is that this will not work very well with Guile since > Guile is a much smaller project with fewer people working on it. In any case I would welcome this very much. Most of my contributions were due to LilyPond. I find it very frustrating to wait for years for my changes to show up. I prefer released software with some rough edges to perfect software which is not released at all. Surely current CVS is better in all regards than the 1.6 release? I don't see the point of postponing releases. Anyway, my 2 cents. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@xs4all.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel