This is how I set up my environment to stay involved: julia -> master julia3 -> release-0.3 julia4on3-> use 0.4 packages on julia3 (this is helpful since I like to develop in the v0.4 directory) julia-multi -> run something with 0.4 packages on julia and julia3 (I normally only use this with 'julia-multi ./test/runtests.jl')
I've put the scripts I use for the last two on Github: https://github.com/sjkelly/julia_scripts These four commands give me the satisfaction of seeing stuff break, and also providing comfort when there are deadlines to meet :P. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Stefan Karpinski < [email protected]> wrote: > It's a bit odd for there to be simultaneous complaints about 0.4 being > unstable (ie under rapid development) and not going anywhere. It's been, > what, 13 years since the plans to release Perl 6 were announced? Seems a > bit early to worry about that kind of problem a couple of months after the > last significant release of Julia. If 0.4 isn't out by 2020 we can start to > worry. > > > On Sep 26, 2014, at 10:12 AM, John Myles White <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hans, > > The tone of your e-mail is a little odd in my opinion. It seems to imply > distrust and even possibly anger for a project that would be substantially > better served by participating actively in the issue discussions that Tim > Holy discussed. I don't think anyone who's following 0.4's progress would > ever believe that 0.4 is not on track. > > -- John > > On Sep 26, 2014, at 3:30 AM, Hans W Borchers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ivar, > > thanks for this clarification; I was really under the impression that -- > like > for Perl and other projects -- I might never ever again hear from a Julia > 0.4 > version. > > A question I asked got buried in another thread and never answered, so I'd > like > to repeat it here: > > Will the NEWS.md file immediately document the (disruptive or > non-disruptive) > changes? That would be very helpful, even if the change is withdrawn > later on. > Also, every NEWS entry could include a date to make it easier to follow > the > development. > > By the way, I am a bit worried about some of the names that seem to come > up in a > next version of Julia. For example, 'Nullable' or 'NullableArray' sound > strange > for me in a technical computing environment. > > > On Friday, September 26, 2014 9:19:37 AM UTC+2, Ivar Nesje wrote: >> >> I think this is a too strong statement. There are definitely happening a >> lot on the master (0.4-dev) branch, but it should be quite usable even >> without reading the majority of Github issues. The more users we have, the >> earlier concerns is raised, and the earlier we can fix them and prepare for >> the final release. You should definitely avoid master on any project with a >> deadline tough. >> >> >> >
