From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 2.0.x branched! Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:25:40 -0500 Message-ID: <87fwrj2863.fsf@netris.org> References: <87sjvpguvj.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahtm63o.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87k4gw2929.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298139991 22775 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 18:26:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 19:26:27 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqrVi-00045t-H0 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:26:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqrVh-0002q4-RL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42895 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqrVZ-0002ks-Kx for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:26:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqrVY-0008DF-FY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([216.204.32.208]:35427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqrVX-0008DA-MD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from ip68-9-118-38.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.9.118.38] helo=freedomincluded) by world.peace.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqrVN-00022p-Qt; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:26:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mhw by freedomincluded with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqrUy-0002Y5-NG; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:25:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:16:31 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 216.204.32.208 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:11664 Archived-At: Hi Andy, Andy Wingo writes: > [...] What I meant was that we should aim for a 2.2.0 release within a > year ot two; and that in the meantime we should focus on consolidating > our gains with the 2.0 series. We need to get 2.0 into the distros, > to see wider use of 2.0, and that will take a little time. > > I did not mean to discourage work on master, no. I actually meant to > encourage those changes that are compatible with 2.0 to go on the > stable-2.0 branch. Sounds reasonable. >> What does this mean for my pending patches that support >> arbitrary-precision floats and GOOPS-based numeric types? > > They would go on master, because they would probably be incompatible > with 2.0.0. Speaking of which, can you ask to be added to the Guile > group on Savannah? That will allow you to commit directly. I would > like for you to continue to mail your patches to the list before > pushing, just to make sure we're all on the same page. If everything > goes well this would become less necessary over time. Excellent! I've just made the request on Savannah. Of course I'll continue to post patches and wait for feedback. > I plan on being a little less responsive over the next couple months > than I have been recently, so patience remains a virtue ;) Certainly no one could fault you for that. I've been amazed at how quickly you've been reviewing non-trivial patches. I wouldn't expect anyone to keep that up for long :) Best, Mark