From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:47:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxdwcdyv.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86tz2dxo80.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu\, 18 Jun 2009 22\:48\:31 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> I think GNU users, especially on non-GNU platforms (proprietary Unices,
> etc.), have come to know what Gnulib is, and to appreciate it
> (hopefully), which is why I thought it would make sense to mention it.
Perhaps it should go in a new section of the NEWS, with title
something like `News about how Guile itself is developed'. Then we
might also mention using Git, libunistring etc. But there's a risk
we'd just end up duplicated information in README and HACKING, I
think.
>> It seems we're aiming towards saying:
>>
>> ** Guile now runs correctly on more platforms. Since the 1.8.x
>> series, support for the following platforms has been added: A, B,
>> C.
>>
>> But (1) I'm not sure we have precise information to hand on what A, B
>> and C are;
>
> Portability work is endless, we just can't provide this information.
Agreed.
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-19 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-14 18:32 NEWS entries -- user-visible? Andy Wingo
2009-06-14 19:43 ` Julian Graham
2009-06-14 22:41 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-18 20:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-19 17:47 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-06-19 17:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-19 18:08 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-19 18:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-27 22:05 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-27 23:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-29 19:19 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-29 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-14 20:39 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-18 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
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