Howdy, On Sun 14 Feb 2010 15:45, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> Regarding the release... I have no thoughts. Perhaps I should prepare >> the NEWS, and we get a release out the door this week, then the next one >> will have catch/throw nicely integrated, and at that point I'll be >> mostly happy for 2.0. Thoughts? > > I think the main focus for the two months preceding 2.0 should be: > > 0. Licensing and copyright (‘pmatch’, etc.). [*] > > 1. Portability fixes. > > 2. Backward-compatibility fixes. > > 3. Documented anything new and undocumented. > > 4. Bug hunting. Agreed. Let me add: full parallel-installability (currently our support is only partial), so that a 2.2 can come out without affecting 2.0 installations. (e.g. putting libguile.h in a versioned subdir, and have pkg-config add -I$includedir/guile-2.0/ to the CFLAGS) > If you think catch/throw on delimited continuations may be ready in a > couple of weeks, and that it’s the last big feature you have in mind for > 2.0, then that’s fine with me. :-) Otherwise, I’d be in favor of > delaying 2.0 as long as needed so we can work on the above points. OK. I think I can get it in, yes. > Note that I’m in favor of shorter release cycles, which means 2.2 > shouldn’t be decades away from 2.0. We could even create a 2.2 branch > one of these days for things we want to play with but that won’t be > ready for prime time until some time. This sounds great to me. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
