From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stable branch will freeze. Date: 15 Mar 2002 20:54:44 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bsdpobcr.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87vgbywwxp.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016222116 23848 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2002 19:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lxnI-0006CY-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:55:16 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2FJsZM28604 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:54:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lxmB-0005un-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip89.dokom.de ([195.138.42.89] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lxkl-0005nz-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 1173 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Mar 2002 19:54:44 -0000 Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:68 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:68 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > From: Marius Vollmer > Date: 15 Mar 2002 00:29:06 +0100 > > I just made the lonely decision to be more rigorous about the "stable" > branch_release-1-6 branch. > > We need to be much more rigorous about really keeping the stable > branch stable. From now on, only release critical, uncontroversial > fixes will be allowed. I intend to be firm on this. We are not > getting anywhere without restraining us from putting new stuff into > the stable branch. > > Of course, it is already controversial exactly what is release > critical. I'll just be deciding this. :) > > sorry, it sounds like you have some delusions of absolute control here. > please get well soon (or demonstrate your position by removing my write > privs so i can unsubscribe from guile development and use in good > conscience -- TIA). Please reconsider. It would be sad to lose your contributions, but I think we could manage. > Consequences: the guile-snarf changes need to be brought back to a > state where guile-snarf is completely compatible with the last > guile-snarf that has been installed. It can add features, but must > not remove any. Also it should define SCM_MAGIC_SNARFER in addition > to SCM_MAGIC_SNARF_INIT when pre-processing the C file. The fact that > SCM_MAGIC_SNARFER is defined should be documented, while > SCM_MAGIC_SNARF_INIT should not be documented. Thien-Thi, I can make > these changes if you want me to. Please feel free to hack on > guile-snarf in the HEAD branch. I really think your work on the > snarfer is important, please don't get me wrong. > > i don't want you to make these changes because the changes do not > support encapsulation and robustness, but i suspect you'll make them > anyway. Yes. I'm not sure that you have the same changes in mind as I do, tho. I would just be making sure that the default (without any -o) is that the output is written to stdout. > in the future someone will complain and someone will decide they > need to be changed back. will you do those changes then, too? No, they will already be in 1.7. ;-) _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel