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: release update Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:46:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87ws7acwbp.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245278835 8932 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2009 22:47:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 18 00:47:11 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 1MH3uP-0005o9-0P for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:47:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3uO-0003lC-Df for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3uF-0003ku-Dl for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3u9-0003jW-U0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37291 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3u9-0003jQ-Kr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:38464) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MH3u9-0002TP-27 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:46:53 -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 E0E811F6D4F; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:46:51 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8B838021; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:46:50 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu\, 18 Jun 2009 00\:05\:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:8695 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Hey Guilers, Hi Andy! > I didn't push anything specific regarding a freeze, but in practice > since we're so few, we've been great at just putting in release-worthy > fixes :) > > I would say that we are definitely on track for a 1.9 on the 19th. Agreed. > I have a list of things to add to the NEWS, which I'm appending to > this mail just to give some scope -- the list only goes back to > September of last year, when it really needs to go back to May or so > when I started work on the VM, but it's close to complete WRT what I > need to add. > > Please add on any missing points. Note that the 1.9 release notes will > become the 2.0 release notes, I think; over the next few months we will > be editing them, adding and removing things, so that readers for the 2.0 > release will understand what it is we've been up to over the last few > years. > > One question is that I've been calling this thing 1.9.1 under the > assumption that we made a 1.9.0; but that does not seem to be the case. > Should this one be 1.9.0 or 1.9.1? I think either is good. (The only other factor that occurs to me is a very silly one, namely that thus far we have got away with being able to use string OK, enough rambling. I have a plane flight tomorrow in which to write > proper NEWS entries, after which hopefully all will be set for a release > on Friday. Some notes/queries on a few of your notes... > no more currying I thought that was unintentional, and have it on my todo list as a bug. Is it actually intentional? > more robust threading support. Does this mean SRFI-18? "more robust" isn't quite right for that, IMO; I'd say "more sophisticated API" or something. > srfi-18 Oh, maybe not then :-) I also made a checklist, here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/7971 My target, though, is to make sure this is all well covered in NEWS by the time we get to the actual 2.0. I'm not very concerned about NEWS being incomplete during the 1.9.x prereleases. Regards, Neil