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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What for 0.5?
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:44:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9ghy5hb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh6x401c.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:01:51 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> I think we should aim for a 0.5 release within 2 to 4 weeks.  So, what
> do we put in there?
>
> We already have nice things:
>
>   • Better patch handling.
>
>   • MIPS/N32 port.
>
>   • Monads, and other API improvements.
>
> In addition, I think we should:
>
>   • Switch to GCC 4.8 as the default compiler, and thus rebuild the
>     bootstrap binaries; optionally, arrange so that those bootstrap
>     binaries are the fixed point.
>
>   • Merge the ‘loongson’ branch in ‘core-updates’.
>
>   • Come up with a new VM demo image, with a better (gnu system) API,
>     and using a new dmd release (more on that later).
>
>   • More packages, ideally in the GUI/desktop area (you can help! :-)).
>
> What do you think?  Anything else?

I think we now have most of what we wanted, so it’s now reasonable to
aim for a release within 1 week.  I’ll spend most of that time on the VM
image, and looking at open bugs.  Help welcome!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-03 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-03 22:01 What for 0.5? Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-05 18:10 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-11-06 13:04   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-11 17:50     ` Andreas Enge
2013-11-11 20:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-12-03 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-12-09 21:19   ` Ludovic Courtès

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