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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rfc: next guile 1.8.x release
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:35:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kizh1er.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ft38jw4h.fsf@gnuvola.org

Hi!

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> skribis:

> I would like to work (on the weekends, so as not to intefere w/
> <day-job>) on preparation and release of Guile 1.8.9, targeted
> for the ides of April (more or less).
>
> Guile 1.8.x users: What changes do you want to see in 1.8.9?
>
> Guile maintainers: Any tips (process, content, interop, etc)
> most welcome!

Guile 1.8 has been unmaintained for years and I wonder about the message
we’d be sending by publishing a bug-fix release 11 years and 3 major
versions later.

I know it still has two important users (LilyPond and TeXmacs), but it
doesn’t seem viable to me to go this route.

Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-29 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-10 21:54 rfc: next guile 1.8.x release Thien-Thi Nguyen
2021-01-11 14:51 ` Mike Gran
2021-01-12 10:55   ` Massimiliano Gubinelli
2021-01-16 22:55     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2021-01-16 22:48   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2021-01-29 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-01-29 23:46   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-01-30 12:31     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-01-30 14:49       ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-01-31 17:35       ` Massimiliano Gubinelli
2021-02-01 21:49         ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-07  6:59         ` John Cowan
2021-03-08 20:36 ` Andy Wingo
2021-03-09  7:14   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-03-03  0:11     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2022-03-14 12:14       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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