ASDF 3.1.6 is released

2015-10-17 Thread Robert Goldman
We would like to announce the release of ASDF 3.1.6, the latest bug fix
release for ASDF.  As usual many thanks are due to Faré for many bug
fixes, clean ups, explanations, etc.  Thanks are also owed to Dave
Cooper, for testing on the Windows platform, enabling the maintainers to
test on Windows, and identifying uncaught bugs. Thanks to Anton
Vodonosov for testing the release candidate against Quicklisp on
cl-test-grid.  Finally, thanks to all who found bugs, provided patches,
and used prerelease candidates.

We urge implementations that are currently bundling previous versions of
ASDF to adopt 3.1.6.  3.1.6 does not introduce any API incompatibilities
that we know of, and contains significant bug fixes on multiple
platforms and implementations.  See the Changelog (below) for a list of
the major bug fixes.  Details on minor bugfixes can be found at
launchpad.net/asdf

We had hoped that 3.1.5 would be the last 3.1.x bug fix release, paving
the way for us to move to developing ASDF 3.2, which we expect will add
new features.  Maybe this time!

Here is the changelog entry for 3.1.6:

  Bug fix and portability release:
  * Fix backtrace on SBCL.
  * Fix RUN-PROGRAM of string (shell command) on Windows SBCL (ticket
#1501373).
  * Fix a number of issues with bundle operations (especially on
non-C-compiler-based implementations).
  * Fix component-finding in package-inferred-system.
  * Fix race condition between multiple concurrent lisp processes
doing ASDF builds (ticket #1483948).
  * Fix misplaced fasl cache on Windows.
  * Miscellaneous bug fixes.
  * Documentation improvements.

 -- Robert P. Goldman   Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:01:34 -0500



Draft release email for 3.1.6

2015-10-17 Thread Robert Goldman
Hope to have this out this evening.  Here's the announcement.  Comments
and corrections welcome (for a few hours!).

We would like to announce the release of ASDF 3.1.6, the latest bug fix release 
for ASDF.  As usual many thanks are due to Faré for many bug fixes, clean ups, 
explanations, etc.  Thanks are also owed to Dave Cooper, for testing on the 
Windows platform, enabling the maintainers to test on Windows, and identifying 
uncaught bugs. Thanks to Anton Vodonosov for testing the release candidate 
against Quicklisp on cl-test-grid.  Finally, thanks to all who found bugs, 
provided patches, and used prerelease candidates.

We urge implementations that are currently bundling previous versions of ASDF 
to adopt 3.1.6.  3.1.6 does not introduce any API incompatibilities that we 
know of, and contains significant bug fixes on multiple platforms and 
implementations.  See the Changelog (below) for a list of the major bug fixes.  
Details on minor bugfixes can be found at launchpad.net/asdf

We had hoped that 3.1.5 would be the last 3.1.x bug fix release, paving the way 
for us to move to developing ASDF 3.2, which we expect will add new features.  
Maybe this time!

Here is the changelog entry for 3.1.6:

  Bug fix and portability release:
  * Fix backtrace on SBCL.
  * Fix RUN-PROGRAM of string (shell command) on Windows SBCL (ticket
#1501373).
  * Fix a number of issues with bundle operations (especially on
non-C-compiler-based implementations).
  * Fix component-finding in package-inferred-system.
  * Fix race condition between multiple concurrent lisp processes
doing ASDF builds (ticket #1483948).
  * Fix misplaced fasl cache on Windows.
  * Miscellaneous bug fixes.
  * Documentation improvements.

 -- Robert P. Goldman   Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:01:34 -0500


Re: License field

2015-10-17 Thread Robert Goldman
On 10/16/15 Oct 16 -2:03 PM, Faré wrote:
> I propose we document that the license field should if possible
> contain an identifier from
>   http://spdx.org/licenses/
>   http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867
> 
> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
> You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write,
> even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
> — Alan Perlis
> 

I like this idea, but I'm going to push it out past 3.1.6.

Starting to work on the release chores now...




Re: License field

2015-10-17 Thread Didier Verna
J'écrivais:

>   Good idea, although it seems to be missing the GNU All Permissive
>   license (the submission process looks quite cumbersome).

  Ended up doing it anyway.

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Re: License field

2015-10-17 Thread Didier Verna
François-René ÐVB Rideau écrivait:

> I propose we document that the license field should if possible
> contain an identifier from
>   http://spdx.org/licenses/
>   http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867

  Good idea, although it seems to be missing the GNU All Permissive
  license (the submission process looks quite cumbersome). 

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