From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1.8 status Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:22:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hd0h36g8.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1317622519==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155576197 13249 80.91.229.2 (14 Aug 2006 17:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 14 19:23:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCg9X-0006Cm-8q for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:23:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCg9W-0000MH-LF for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCg9U-0000Kx-5V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:23:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCg9Q-0000EU-Az for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCg9Q-0000EN-8M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.1.100.210] (helo=fnord.ir.bbn.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GCgFH-0007zo-7C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 444385399; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:22:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Rob Browning X-Hashcash: 1:20:060814:guile-devel@gnu.org::OSI7IhTyg92XcnZv:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000004xuE X-Hashcash: 1:20:060814:rlb@defaultvalue.org::OSI7IhTyg92XcnZv:000000000000000000000000000000000000000004X1D In-Reply-To: <87hd0h36g8.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:00:39 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) 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:6026 Archived-At: --===============1317622519== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rob Browning writes: > Greg Troxel writes: > >> 1.8.0 seems to now be pretty old, and a diff of the head of >> branch_release-1-8 against release_1-8-0 (-Nu) gives 6088 lines, of >> which 2857 are new (ignorning hierarchy.pdf). >> >> The slib bug fix appears not to be present on the 1.8 branch, but I'm >> not quite sure - it seems only to be on the 1.6 branch, and not on >> HEAD. > > Right. The problem is that things have changed in 1.8, and we still > haven't worked out the right way to handle SLIB. The solution will > almost certainly look a lot like the one in 1.6, but we also need to > make sure the upstream guile.init is appropriate for 1.8. > > I've been talking with Aubrey Jaffer about this, but we've been going > fairly slowly. > > The lack of SLIB support is one of the reasons that I haven't uploaded > 1.8 packages for Debian yet. I was hoping to wait until we had gotten > that worked out, but I've decided to just go ahead, so I should be > uploading 1.8 packages within about a week or so. Thanks. I'll take this as guidance that 1.8.0 is alpha quality, and should not yet be considered a production release, and that I shouldn't upgrade pkgsrc yet. I'll stick with 1.6.8 for now. =2D-=20 Greg Troxel --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (NetBSD) iD8DBQFE4LFv+vesoDJhHiURAj04AJ459JJ6c2cG75P+wSsGdeCTTulB4gCfUSLr MaFk3EkwPEWr2zc6qR53+GI= =bNJV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============1317622519== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel --===============1317622519==--