From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: rfc: next guile 1.8.x release Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:35:24 +0100 Message-ID: <874kizh1er.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ft38jw4h.fsf@gnuvola.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13389"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: guile-user@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:03oNvWhV7rnbpaGKB4ZzPfwXyLk= Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 22:36:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l5bR6-0003NP-Gq for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:36:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35996 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5bR5-0006vK-Ji for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5bQW-0006v6-IP for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:35:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5bQU-0003Lk-Un for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:35:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l5bQR-0002Sl-AS for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:35:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 =?utf-8?Q?Pluvi=C3=B4se?= an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:17198 Archived-At: Hi! Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: > I would like to work (on the weekends, so as not to intefere w/ > ) 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’.