Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not as far as I'm concerned, though would a trivial NEWS entry be > appropriate? i.e. perhaps something like > > ** make-stack can now correctly construct a stack from a continuation. > > if that's correct. Yes, that would be fine. Neil __

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-17 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, for `(call/cc make-stack)'. make-stack is supposed to be able to > construct a stack from a continuation, a debug object, or from `#t', > which means the current evaluation stack. But the make-stack code was > missing a lot of the relocations that a

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Thanks. In this case, I'm pretty sure my bug fixes don't qualify as >> NEWS. > > What is the continuations versus stack bit you added some tests for? > Is it a fix for something? Yes, for `(call/cc make-stack)

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Rob Browning
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find the way 1.6.7 is said first here pretty unclear. I know it's > been that way for a long time, but I always have to think for which > version I'm reading about. I agree. I thought the same thing myself today, but went ahead and stuck with the conve

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Rob Browning
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> cvs -qz5 diff -u -r release_1-6-7 > > I added the bits I did, mostly fixes from bug reports. I've tried to > keep it brief, none are too terrible, unless you actually wanted to > use something affected :).

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Kevin Ryde
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Changes since Guile 1.6.7 (changes in 1.6.8): I find the way 1.6.7 is said first here pretty unclear. I know it's been that way for a long time, but I always have to think for which version I'm reading about. Maybe just, Guile 1.6.8 changes

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Kevin Ryde
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > cvs -qz5 diff -u -r release_1-6-7 I added the bits I did, mostly fixes from bug reports. I've tried to keep it brief, none are too terrible, unless you actually wanted to use something affected :). ___ Gu

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Kevin Ryde
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks. In this case, I'm pretty sure my bug fixes don't qualify as > NEWS. What is the continuations versus stack bit you added some tests for? Is it a fix for something? ___ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The general rule I've heard is that NEWS should include "user visible > changes", but of course that leaves a lot of room for discretion. > > I suppose I'd say that it depends on the bug fix. If a bug was fixed > that people might have noticed and were h

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-16 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have time, could those of you who have committed changes to 1.6 > (since 1.6.7) check out a current 1.6 tree, look over the output of > > cvs -qz5 diff -u -r release_1-6-7 > > and make sure that all of your changes have appropriate NEWS entries?

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-15 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are two bug fixes by me, but I don't think they merit NEWS > entries. (Bug fixes don't normally, do they?) The general rule I've heard is that NEWS should include "user visible changes", but of course that leaves a lot of room for discretion. I su

Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

2005-10-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have time, could those of you who have committed changes to 1.6 > (since 1.6.7) check out a current 1.6 tree, look over the output of > > cvs -qz5 diff -u -r release_1-6-7 > > and make sure that all of your changes have appropriate NEWS entries?