Hi Joel, Le 30 déc. 2009 à 21:08, Joel E. Denny a écrit :
>> There is quite some work here :( We have too many branches alive. I'm >> sorry I don't help more; making some releases would relieve you from >> maintaining so many different versions. > > I think we should roll 2.4.2 soon. I can do it if you're too busy. I don't see when I would do it :( I'm sorry I failed you on this one, I meant to release it some time ago. But never managed to spend enough time on it. Please, proceed whenever you fee like doing it. > However, there are at least two issues now that we should address first: > > 1. Florian Krohm reported a problem with %prec. Unless there are > objections, I'll soon push the latest solution I proposed: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-12/msg00039.html I agree with your proposal. > 2. You and I have discussed putting together a survey for our users. I > asked gnu-prog-discuss for advice on a free survey tool with free hosting. > So far, there haven't been any suggestions that seem to do what we need > and still satisfy the FSF. I later noticed that a voting system for > Savannah is actually one of the points discussed at the latest GNU hackers > meeting. In summary, I'm thinking it may be a while before we find > anything we can use. Maybe we should just postpone the survey until after > the 2.4.2 release. Yes, maybe we should. At Gostai, we recently discovered http://uservoice.com/. I've not used it yet, but it looks very nice. > In any case, I'm growing less inclined to ask our users for permission to > move to C99 in the front-end. I've been finding it difficult to resist on > the 2.5 and master branches. C99 is over a decade old, so I think we > should feel free to move forward. Of course, I understand that the > backend is a different issue. I concur. Actually, the other question is moving to C++ :)
