When is 1.8 going to be released

When is 1.8 going to be released

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Hi guys,

Just wondering what time-frame you had in mind for releasing 1.8, what
is still left to do, and who is working on what-needs-to-be-done.

Greetings,

Han-Wen

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Re: When is 1.8 going to be released

[Marius Vollmer]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> 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.

> what is still left to do, and who is working on
> what-needs-to-be-done.

There is a list in workbook/tasks/TODO.  The biggest items are

  - Implement scm replacements for all of GH

This includes designing the replacement first and writing
documentation, both tutorial style and reference style.

  - Cleanup threading code and document it.  Especially the roles of
    the different APIs (C low level, Scheme, Plugin)

That should not be much work, but I have to admit that I'm a bit
confused right now and need to make room in me head before attempting
this.

  - 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...

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Re: When is 1.8 going to be released

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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.

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Re: When is 1.8 going to be released

[Rob Browning]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> 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? 

Everyone, right? :>

Actually, at least in my case, I was a bit out of commission
guile-wise for a bit, but that should be fixed now.  I'm working on
the source this weekend, and we'll see how things go.

I'd like to consider making a 1.6.5 release in the not too distant
future, so everyone should start thinking about what (bugfix-wise)
might not already be in CVS.

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Re: When is 1.8 going to be released

[Kevin Ryde]

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>
> I'd like to consider making a 1.6.5 release in the not too distant
> future, so everyone should start thinking about what (bugfix-wise)
> might not already be in CVS.

In other messages,
   - scm_done_malloc on negative operands
   - srfi-1 list-copy on improper lists.

I was going to go ahead with a list-copy fix, but then 1.6 doesn't
have an srfi-1.c module as such so I wasn't sure if I was keen enough
to either introduce one or do it in scheme.  Maybe (tested a bit),

(define (list-copy lst)
  (let ((ret (cons #f lst)))
    (do ((lst lst (cdr lst))
         (end ret (cdr end)))
        ((not (pair? lst))
         (cdr ret))
      (set-cdr! end (cons (car lst) (cdr lst))))))


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Re: When is 1.8 going to be released

[Marius Vollmer]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> 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? 

Mostly Rob and myself.  I'm not aware of Cygwin patches (which is
enterily my fault).  Please mail them to me and I'll have a look.

>>   - 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?

I can't answer this yet; maybe it is that simple.

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Re: When is 1.8 going to be released

[Kevin Ryde]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:
>
>   - Implement scm replacements for all of GH
>
> This includes designing the replacement first and writing
> documentation, both tutorial style and reference style.

Speaking of this, it occurred to me while nosing through the
transitioning section that it might be better for the replacements to
be given with each gh function as it's described.  For instance
gh_list might say something like

	Superseded by `scm_list_n' (*note List Constructors::).

The whole chapter could probably move to be an appendix if it's not
recommended for new programs.  Maybe the "Deprecated" chapter could
similarly be an appendix.


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