New release schedule and roadmap:
Robert and I have decided to rethink the upcoming release schedule
for Elephant. There are sufficient quality and stability
enhancements in this release, and a properly coherent feature set, to
justify moving towards a 1.0 release in the near future. Therefore
the current CVS (0.6.1 beta) will shortly become 0.9rc1. There is a
small feature list on queue to get us to 1.0. There will probably be
at least two minor releases before 1.0, one to expose a few important
new features and one that is essentially a release candidate. The
revised roadmap is documented in the Trac system (http://trac.common-
lisp.net/elephant).
Some of the big new features that were planned (i.e. lisp backend)
have been moved to a 1.1 or remain unassigned to any release
milestone. Development after 1.0 will slow down from its current
pace, but the maintainers are committed to the future of Elephant and
will support bug reports and any new feature development initiated by
users (or by our own needs and motivations).
Source control:
We're planning to move to Darcs shortly, with the hope that the
Windows solution improves at some point. For those who want to
actively develop on Windows in the meantime, we'll support a
development 'branch' in SVN. This is an interim solution until Darcs
on Windows matures further or cl-darcs matures sufficiently.
OpenMCL:
We're still looking for OpenMCL testers for versions 1.0 and
especially 64-bit 1.1.
Best Regards,
Ian and Robert
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