From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julian Graham Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: updated NEWS, release tomorrow Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:36:47 -0400 Message-ID: <2bc5f8210907141436yd2c2c83x8c729fdb6ec0aea9@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247607750 8822 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 21:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 23:42:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQplW-0004Ib-Kz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQplW-0000Be-48 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQpgG-00017R-9d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQpgB-00011d-7J for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50978 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQpgB-00011H-1c for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:36:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com ([209.85.219.217]:48294) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQpgA-0004w4-Kq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy17 with SMTP id 17so4014286ewy.42 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:36:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0hvfbe8A6CGHUHdMQDWi0+Vt5k8xnqGFcrbA5C+mJR8=; b=eACi0IWCsUwStuUWi+iJhuv+ixVHjDUECdd5TD9kEaNqEFo9JIDmx/c/L8ZqDKIT4u NJzVd3v/hk7a8fmDi5aEoGvf4LC3XGrC0rGEtcO6BuTXLkBa8dFUUkXeZA/yEVZ1x4QB ZWFoa7BLcdGWM4y7KlMCRrxcqf3jFB/WIIxUc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fh9c8jh6rSixNkW004KvzM72qMnNsCYG+kEN3dUzS3S3IfyKz9YZr4vFsK/bWLc5Mo i500ShNWyP7qnR0Ul0BKhF7RxxKTVQHfZj2DngKsw0VyayM7e8XOKkbEAjmRHUS/mZpH qFjNekD/LBV44V2EiA1hyyLIVGr51Gc1uAfRw= Original-Received: by 10.210.41.14 with SMTP id o14mr7068921ebo.88.1247607409096; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:36:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8872 Archived-At: Thanks, Andy (and Neil and Ludovic and everyone else), for the continued hard work! Still can't believe how much progress has already been made. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've updated the NEWS as best I could for happenings between 1.9.0 and > 1.9.1. They're notable to us, but fortunately many of the changes since > the last release are just changes to 1.9 code that won't be visible to a > 1.8 user. Anyway, check the NEWS, or if you're too lazy and everything > goes well, just check your inbox tomorrow. > > I should apologize for lack of responsiveness over the last couple > weeks. I started poking at uniform vectors, and that code is the > badness. It's arrays and generalized vectors and uniform vectors and > bitvectors and bytevectors and normal vectors &c &c, and instead of > there being some kind of orthogonal exposition of the types, *all of the > code calls each other*. It's nutty. > > Trying to straighten out the mess, the mess pulled me in instead, a big > open parenthesis... I have a branch working more or less, but it won't > be ready for review for another week or so. > > Did I mention that the code makes the pun "ra" for "array", apparently > to conserve electrons? > > Anyway, distcheck passes, so Ludovic if you don't mind, the repo seems > to be in a releasable state. Let me know if I can help in any other way; > I'll be working but online tomorrow should you need me.