Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/4/07, Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stable are those versions that work with my software :-) You do make valid points in your email to Peter, and if you don't feel like declaring official stable releases and bothering with binary packages, that's fine with me. But like you say,

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/4/07, Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that's not what's happening. The trunk, which is the best and most stable, does not build at least in linux-amd64 and mingw-x86. Quite right, I should have followed my own policy and started a branch first. But it is too late now, and

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy: adding my 2/100ths of a dollar...

2007-09-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/5/07, Matthew Welland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the classic kernel model that some end users (including me) would probably appreciate (just restating the obvious here for the record): This looks quite good. Perhaps a release branch, to which fixes are regularly merged from the

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 9/3/07, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That distinction always felt arbitrary to me. Can you define what a suitable version for a release is? Version X or version X + 1 with bug Y fixed? Chicken doesn't have any unstable versions. The HEAD is always (ok, should always)

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy: adding my 2/100ths of a dollar...

2007-09-04 Thread Matthew Welland
** This is the opinion of an enthusiastic *end user* of chicken. ** Keeping up with change consumes time and energy on many levels. I would prefer to see periodic releases but I do understand that for those working on the bleeding edge maintaining releases is an annoying distraction. Here is

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-03 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/1/07, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:37PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: The chicken version has been bumped to 2.701, now. There will be no more official releases from now on, just continuously created snapshots. IMHO this is not a good idea. Other

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-03 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Felix and folks, On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:28:37 +0200 felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The chicken version has been bumped to 2.701, now. There will be no more official releases from now on, just continuously created snapshots. Mario's automated snapshot builds can be considered

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-02 Thread Elf
what platforms and do we have testsuites available? i'm willing to help write a testsuite to make this job feasible. -elf On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Tony Sidaway wrote: On 9/2/07, Elf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree that no official releases is a Bad Thing, unless it's a temporary

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-02 Thread Kon Lovett
On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Elf wrote: what platforms and do we have testsuites available? See chicken-eggs/chicken/trunk/tests. Not a testsuite like those found in many eggs but what I run (along w/ the benchmarks) as a build checkout. i'm willing to help write a testsuite to

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-02 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 9/2/07, Tony Sidaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So who is going to step in and volunteer to perform, or procure, enough cross-platform testing to be worthy of the name release manager? I don't have the time for that, but I do have access to Solaris/SPARC systems, and would help to set up a

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-01 Thread Elf
I tend to agree that no official releases is a Bad Thing, unless it's a temporary change. -elf On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Peter Bex wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:37PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: The chicken version has been bumped to 2.701, now. There will be no more official releases

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-01 Thread Tony Sidaway
On 9/2/07, Elf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree that no official releases is a Bad Thing, unless it's a temporary change. So who is going to step in and volunteer to perform, or procure, enough cross-platform testing to be worthy of the name release manager?