From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Guile 2.1.8 on 9 March / 2.2.0 on 16 March Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:59:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87k288az28.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488441629 21934 195.159.176.226 (2 Mar 2017 08:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 08:00:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 09:00:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cjLeo-00048y-QH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 09:00:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjLet-0001Mi-Ac for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjLen-0001MP-SL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjLek-0000l0-Pw for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from pb-sasl2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.67]:52892 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjLek-0000kb-MM; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-sasl2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E20B68260; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 03:00:08 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=N cAHsU7rQHh0PjrTJQWUp9iRfco=; b=Pw+rSD6knnXDNDNd+duvqftgsJQEMaH3l zTW5+WT8ZVcEF62/QRIWPqmWMoPIiOS5rD4SjTZG2LScTtAqxcBLlLQTlPicsTcl W/GNpcwuFgY0SubKMNtE6rA0ECYJkMM+2uV/OGiAI27VGnjFuQa9vrbVmKK7mz3M 3764ZeaPHs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s= sasl; b=PeDh3063i/ElasMwOYOYBBtkCL6iflWtpzITKlnaYW9ntrL7og11fUvL YhGZeBZ7uWBGObnvuyTPhH5RFbUgHH6RI9gXHFnRJiiw1YUxCh+zokOHZnWd/ESx kstynp8tz1mR0p17vare+DkaBzEsnlHAkvNU9J9Xpjlm38v/hsA= Original-Received: from pb-sasl2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-sasl2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F116825F; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 03:00:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from clucks (unknown [88.160.190.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-sasl2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94B1F6825A; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 03:00:06 -0500 (EST) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3FFBB3F6-FF1E-11E6-AEC3-85AB91A0D1B0-02397024!pb-sasl2.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 64.147.108.67 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18976 gmane.lisp.guile.user:13375 Archived-At: Hi, An update on Guile 2.2 status. As I mentioned in a previous mail, I think the master branch is good to go. I spent some time over the last week going over bugs; I have looked at all bugs in our database (!), fixed a number of them (check https://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/guile.html!), and I think from those bugs I have no release blockers. I am a little behind on guile-devel still but hope to catch up shortly; that's my only remaining backlog. I have forward-ported all appropriate patches from 2.0 except the reproducible-build patches. I am hoping Ludovic will take that up :) So we are caught up there as well. There are still the release blocker discussions ongoing: foreign objects, macro-introduced toplevel identifiers, and GOOPS incompatible changes. I think though that we are looking pretty good for a final 2.1.8 prerelease on 9 March (in 1 week). Then we can let people build it, fix any build errors, try it out on various platforms or whatever, and get out a 2.2.0 on 16 March. I would point people to hydra tarballs to test but it seems we broke Hydra with the dist-lzip patch :) I reverted that patch on both branches and hopefully we have new disted tarballs for checking in a few hours. Finally for the release we should consider publicity -- what do we do? Anything special? Volunteers are welcome here. The NEWS is quite verbose, so condensing it into a set of 5-10 big-ticket items could be useful; dunno. Maybe we can use this as an opportunity to get people to try Guix actually -- if we cut a 2.2.0 tarball a day before and get it into Guix and get guile-next built, perhaps we could offer a binary installation option for people on GNU machines (via Guix). Dunno; thoughts here are welcome. OK, that's all from me. Happy hacking :) Andy