NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-14 Thread Andy Wingo
Greets, It seems that some of the NEWS entries that are currently there for the 1.9.0 release reflect awesomeness, but not awesomeness which users can react to. Specifically, I am going to remove the following NEWS entries, which are great stuff but thankfully invisible to the user: **

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-14 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Andy, As mentioned on IRC, I bet there are ways to pitch these changes to make them comprehensible to users. I think you're right to ditch the second one, but for the first and third:    ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid ** Guile now uses components from Gnulib for portability

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Greets, It seems that some of the NEWS entries that are currently there for the 1.9.0 release reflect awesomeness, but not awesomeness which users can react to. Specifically, I am going to remove the following NEWS entries, which are great stuff but

Re: 1.9 on the 19th; freeze 10 june (this wednesday)

2009-06-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: I think what we need just is - import of the Gnulib `havelib' module (actually we already import this indirectly, but now we need it directly) - AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS(gmp) in configure.in - update of the Additional INSTALL instructions section in

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Julian Graham jool...@gmail.com writes: Hi Andy, As mentioned on IRC, I bet there are ways to pitch these changes to make them comprehensible to users. I think you're right to ditch the second one, but for the first and third:    ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid ** Guile