ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello gentlefolks, > > Kei Kebreau skribis: > >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >> >>> Kei, >>> >>> On 03/07/17 21:36, Kei Kebreau wrote: >>>> These two packages should be updated at the same time, as the old hop >>>> won't build with the new bigloo. >>>> >>>> I'd feel better if a bigloo and hop user verified that everything still >>>> works as it should. >>> >>> I'm afraid I can't help you with that, but I can always ask annoying >>> questions: why the update to a release candidate? >>> >> >> Mainly because the existing (stable?) hop wasn't building correctly and >> had mysteriously absent make targets. >> >>> The web site[1] left me more confused than I entered. The ‘file you >>> should download if you want to build the Hop stable [sic] version from >>> the sources’ is the even less stable-looking hop-3.1.0-pre1.tar.gz... >>> >> >> The same thing happened to me! I noticed that hop version 3.1.x only >> existed in the developer's git repository on GitHub[2], so I just got >> the latest available source tarball from the FTP server. > > Hop 3.x has been in the works for a couple of years but I think they > never put out a proper release. > > So I think it’s OK to upgrade to this “RC”. (Even though I preferred > 2.5 since 3.x is actually a JavaScript implementation…) > > As for testing, I’d say that if the tests pass, that’s OK. > > Thank you! > > Ludo’. Thanks to both of you for the review. Changes pushed as 5e3ea571c5ac10858b2a1d6d3dc94a26408ae601 and 082725b5027a3782f242b634f94b9049d4c7f309! P.S. The most recent Hop version is 3.1.0-pre2 as of today and the older RC was removed from the FTP server. I updated the package definition accordingly.