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: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:06 -0500 Message-ID: <87k4gw2929.fsf@netris.org> References: <87sjvpguvj.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahtm63o.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298073276 5979 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 23:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:54:36 +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 00:54:31 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 1Pqa9e-00036H-Os for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:54:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51026 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pqa9e-0006gU-Fw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49431 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pqa9b-0006gF-Iv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqa9Z-0006LL-Td for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([216.204.32.208]:38013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqa9Z-0006Jh-QF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:25 -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 1Pqa9J-000845-Of; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mhw by freedomincluded with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqa9H-0002CV-22; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:17:54 +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:11662 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Compatible changes on 2.0.x seem fine to me; we should live in 2.0.x > for a year or two I think. What do you mean by "live in 2.0.x"? Does this mean that we should avoid working on deeper changes to Guile for the next year or two? What does this mean for my pending patches that support arbitrary-precision floats and GOOPS-based numeric types? It's too bad, because I'm all fired up to do a bunch of work on guile, not just on numerics but other stuff too. Bad timing, I guess. I don't mean to apply pressure here. I can appreciate the issues faced by maintainers, who must balance stability vs new development, and I very much appreciate that you applied so many of my patches so soon before the 2.0.0 release. Best, Mark