From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1.9.1 checklist Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <368557.45938.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243377485 30240 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2009 22:38:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:38:05 +0000 (UTC) To: Andy Wingo , guile-devel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 27 00:37:56 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 1M95HQ-0000y0-I5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 00:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55987 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M95HP-0005xK-P9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M95HN-0005wK-7t for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M95HH-0005pS-L9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47330 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M95HH-0005pP-Fh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.168]:27065) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M95HH-0005fg-3o for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 46665 invoked by uid 60001); 26 May 2009 22:37:46 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1243377466; bh=KNY7peoCbpAqN/N90g9VYBOvs5TRugro89+VQuk823s=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=gQEViQnMc9JAJb/pcZUd9zfr0IvOUebFMiESM78V01nPhvF7kra8Vj7NwOaYDuL/GT075eRuhLw97Kx+KzsRsPXU8pAsiZYtprpSBmdIYy5acRbTl5hxKARwqScHLZd6SLxeOmf8jPwXzF0g6vFU/tQtAJ3jdOd5UNqkibHJEqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=kWdrZE3dRqk5eROLTCJoi5T45W1xMMMl+EklTD/4msD+EGSxp6+bVf5GiF/aXxRKDF/joYfRWTbjAuDguflQ8wAAlGUx12cDAH8KDSl8fqh7XuC5c2ONgdEoqWaOgpWwGSpfQQh9cA2bh1d/ux9RvgjKRqVQ4n5LihKrdFv6v+E=; X-YMail-OSG: 8BIM.hcVM1ng7YuTlYzHhQLvXp2IHRC2QoFapJxNIVtX5r0At5T8LpJJbVu8PHTEVvuBXkkqTA5J.gxVnMwP9p_puxqiCkLonWLSOczoKPNuIgGuvC3G9vya7CKGmVwoEWz0bxIxC3s0YKM5y4NNdg6AaDi5rJ9ONpS3ss6F8KM3hvT.ZFFr.5cDEDP8gWcxS1z_MYHnsqeVFMrpZk6G32c7AU0FZORB6FqaXqL4DsFCEdVPEEA42kLJq_J0kFuabuBWjPhGxs8VX55velYq8UWho9PmTaLDFw-- Original-Received: from [64.52.12.130] by web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 26 May 2009 15:37:46 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1277.43 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:8531 Archived-At: > Hey folks! > > So, IMO we need to start pushing towards a release. How about getting a > 1.9.1 out soon? > > Unicode: > Code shaping up, needs review and R6RS-libs. Unclear how much will be > in shape for 2.0. Acceptable to ship with only the finished parts. > The big steps to hit a beta on Unicode are transcoders in R6RS I/O, charsets that have more than 256 characters, some serious profiling, and unicode-sized characters and strings in the virtual machine, compiler, and REPL. Also readline may need some work. > Basically at this point the features are coming together, and we need > testing and exposure to focus the hackpower on what's important. > > My proposal would be a time-based release schedule. We can decide the > Guile 2.0 release date now, and three or four micro releases before > then. FWIW, I think the most imporant attribute of a 2.0 release is that it doesn't break the code by Guile's four big customers: Gnucash, GCC via Autogen,SND, and Lilypond. -Mike Gran