Re: Guile 1.8.9 release

[Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:37 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:10 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> wrote:
> >    your timing is fortuitous. I just spent the christmas
> >    holidays delving into GUILE 1.8's heap expansion strategy and
> >    found and fixed a bug with it.
> >
> >
> https://github.com/hanwen/guile/commit/9b32504780e0b604196be866b8c36079891e3cd6
> >
> >    How does code review for proposed patches work these days?
> >
> > I don't know.  I think what you did is fine.  I invite experts
> > to review and comment.  They will surely be quicker than me (i
> > will require a week or two just to read/understand the patch).
> >
> >    I'd be happy to polish it up (ie. add a proper test) for
> >    inclusion in GUILE 1.8.9,
> >
> > Sounds good.  I think the general approach for 1.8.x releases
> > will be bugfixes and documentation changes primarily, so your
> > change would be most welcome (once i wrap my head around it).
>
> Thanks. It turns out my previous fix introduced ABI breakage, so I
> reworked it to not change function signatures or struct sizes. It's
> also split up in more parts, so it becomes easier to understand.
> Please see here:
>
>
> https://gcithub.com/hanwen/guile/commit/8fbe3222cac4b4e9b39a6a3570ac43f160faa516
> <https://github.com/hanwen/guile/commit/8fbe3222cac4b4e9b39a6a3570ac43f160faa516>



Any news here? Can I do anything to get this fix in?

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwenn@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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