> Hey folks! > > So, IMO we need to start pushing towards a release. How about getting a > 1.9.1 out soon? > > Unicode: > Code shaping up, needs review and R6RS-libs. Unclear how much will be > in shape for 2.0. Acceptable to ship with only the finished parts. >
The big steps to hit a beta on Unicode are transcoders in R6RS I/O, charsets that have more than 256 characters, some serious profiling, and unicode-sized characters and strings in the virtual machine, compiler, and REPL. Also readline may need some work. > Basically at this point the features are coming together, and we need > testing and exposure to focus the hackpower on what's important. > > My proposal would be a time-based release schedule. We can decide the > Guile 2.0 release date now, and three or four micro releases before > then. FWIW, I think the most imporant attribute of a 2.0 release is that it doesn't break the code by Guile's four big customers: Gnucash, GCC via Autogen,SND, and Lilypond. -Mike Gran
