From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: updated NEWS, release tomorrow Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:24:16 +0100 Message-ID: <874otemmsf.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87prc229et.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247643425 17808 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2009 07:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo , ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cou?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?rt=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 15 09:36:58 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 1MQz2u-0006KV-ST for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:36:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48798 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQz2u-0000C2-6y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQys0-000513-F0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQyrv-0004zG-HO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44925 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQyrv-0004zA-9e for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:6222) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQyrr-0004Rd-Od; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQyrG-0000U9-IX; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36A11F6BB7; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:24:16 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5267D38021; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:24:16 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87prc229et.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22's?= message of "Wed\, 15 Jul 2009 00\:21\:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:8876 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > Hey! Hi there. > Andy Wingo writes: > >> I should apologize for lack of responsiveness over the last couple >> weeks. Me too; I've been decamping to France for the summer. I should be more available from now on (for a while!). >> 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. > > Eh eh, indeed. "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" :-) Personally I've never dared to really get into this. On the other hand, let's not forget that it was written by some clever people, and that (AFAIK) it works and is fast. >> Did I mention that the code makes the pun "ra" for "array", apparently >> to conserve electrons? > > Makes grepping so much easier! :-) >> 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. > > Thank you! I'll be working on it in the evening UTC+2. Looking forward to it. FWIW, after the release I plan to sort out source properties and getting GDS working again. Regards, Neil