Looks good so far Rick.
--
Mark Miesfeld
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]>wrote:
> Ok, I've gone and marked the RFEs that I believe are already in trunk or I
> would like to implement for the next release as the 4.2.0 Milestone. You
> might want to review the RFEs to see if there are any I've missed. If
> there are features you wish to have implemented, you can categorize them,
> but be prepared to be the one implementing the feature if you do :-)
> There's a fair amount of work here, much of it documentation and unit
> tests for the new features.
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> That sounds like a good plan. I was toying around with looking at what
>> it might take to back port some of the feature requests you had implemented
>> from trunk to 4.1 fixes from the commit messages. And, it looked difficult
>> to me.
>>
>> Your number 3 may indeed be easier.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Miesfeld
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Grr, stupid GMAIL decided to send before I was finished.
>>>
>>> 1) Commit my pending mutablebuffer api changes.
>>> 2) Copy trunk to my sandbox to preserve the current state.
>>> 3) Take a crack at snipping out the bits that are not ready for
>>> primetime yet. I'm thinking this might be an easier task than trying to
>>> merge changes into the release branch.
>>> 4) Assuming 3 is workable, complete the pending work on the stack
>>> frames and the APIs.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rick,
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I just updated the readme.version file in the root directory
>>>>> of 4.1.fixes and was using that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some other details you may or may not have thought about. The doc
>>>>> branch used for 4.1.3 is mostly not updated to the new format that is docs
>>>>> trunk. It might be easier to use docs trunk for 4.2.0 and remove some
>>>>> things then to branch the 4.1.3 docs to 4.2.0.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I had forgotten about the doc format. As I was browsing the list
>>>> of changes, there's one part of the exception work I'd really like to keep.
>>>> That's the whole stack frame bit and the enhancements to the error
>>>> tracebacks. Those pieces still need to have some docs written and also
>>>> some unit tests. The current test suite trunk is already using those new
>>>> features, so there's another intersection there. I also have some API
>>>> enhancements for MutableBuffer support that's currently only in my working
>>>> copy it might be nice to add.
>>>>
>>>> Before I create a branch from 4.1.3 and attempt to merge anything back
>>>> in, here's what I'm going to try first.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Make a snapshot of trunk to my sandbox to preserve what I've
>>>> written.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In ooRexx trunk, you had done some work on converting some of the
>>>>> extensions to the C++ native API. I don't think any of that would depend
>>>>> on new code in the interpreter that won't go in 4.2.0, so I think it would
>>>>> be nice to have those extensions updated with what is in trunk, rather
>>>>> that
>>>>> what is in 4.1.3.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mark Miesfeld
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought I did, let me see what I can find.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mark Miesfeld
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Rick McGuire
>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mark,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you written down any notes on what files need to be updated
>>>>>>> when we create a new release branch? It's been a while since I've done
>>>>>>> one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rick
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Mark Miesfeld
>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rick,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm so glad you brought this up. I've been meaning for a couple of
>>>>>>>> months to start an e-mail with the title: "Discuss: what should be due
>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>> trunk?"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Of the several different possibilities, which path to take were
>>>>>>>> somewhat dependent on how you felt. The 2 foremost in my mind were
>>>>>>>> exactly
>>>>>>>> what you are suggesting, or to branch off trunk to a "holding"
>>>>>>>> directory
>>>>>>>> like we did with some of your 4.0 work that you didn't want to lose and
>>>>>>>> branch 4.1.3 to 4.2.0.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think your proposal is ideal, I'm all for it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Mark Miesfeld
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Rick McGuire <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The code in trunk is not quite to a point where all of the new
>>>>>>>>> features are ready to go. In particular, the stackframe/exception
>>>>>>>>> stuff is
>>>>>>>>> a long way from being complete. This unfortunately, is also blocking
>>>>>>>>> shipment of some useful new features that are not dependent upon this
>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>> work.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm not really sure when the exception stuff will be ready,
>>>>>>>>> there's a lot of work still needed and frankly, I'm at a point where
>>>>>>>>> I've
>>>>>>>>> been stuck on what direction some things should go with that. I
>>>>>>>>> suspect it
>>>>>>>>> might be better at this point to back off a touch and first ship a
>>>>>>>>> smaller
>>>>>>>>> subset of what's there.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Anyway, I'm thinking we might want to push the current trunk up to
>>>>>>>>> 4.3.0, create a 4.2.0 branch off of 4.1.3 and merge in as many of the
>>>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>>>> RFEs as we can. There are also a number of open RFEs that are pretty
>>>>>>>>> small
>>>>>>>>> that we could get off of our plates easily.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think I might be able to start working on getting the branches
>>>>>>>>> created for the code, docs, and test suite and start doing the
>>>>>>>>> merges. Do
>>>>>>>>> others think this is a good idea?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Rick
>>>>>>>>>
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