Pike 8.0 beta 8.0.1738

2022-02-01 Thread Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum
> Hello all- Hi Bill. > I’ve prepared a new 8.0 beta release and have uploaded it to: > > http://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.1738/Pike-v8.0.1738.tar.gz There's now a corresponding ebuild for Gentoo in the Pike overlay. > Thanks in advance! Thanks for making the effort!

Pike 8.0 beta 8.0.1738

2022-01-31 Thread H William Welliver
Hello all- I’ve prepared a new 8.0 beta release and have uploaded it to: http://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.1738/Pike-v8.0.1738.tar.gz This release is more or less green across the board. I’d like to get some feedback on binary builds, so if anyone has more than one system alike, I’d

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2016-01-04 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Lahtinen Kimmo (Valtori) wrote: > I think I can understand the need for your request, but I am wondering is the > random function correct for that kind of purpose. I think the main function > is to generate random sequence and more

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2016-01-01 Thread Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
>Peter Bortas wrote: >>o The random(), random_string() and random_seed() might be more random > >> On computers with a hardware pseudo random generator random() can >> return significantly more random numbers, however, this means that >> random_seed is a no-op on those machines. > >That would

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2016-01-01 Thread Peter Bortas
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Peter Bortas wrote: >> I'm taking up an old tradition that haven't been practiced since 2008 as far >> as >> I can tell: Making releases on new years eve. Bill has been

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2016-01-01 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
Peter Bortas wrote: >o The random(), random_string() and random_seed() might be more random > On computers with a hardware pseudo random generator random() can > return significantly more random numbers, however, this means that > random_seed is a no-op on those machines. That would mean that

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2015-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Peter Bortas wrote: > I'm taking up an old tradition that haven't been practiced since 2008 as far > as > I can tell: Making releases on new years eve. Bill has been busy with other > things, so I'll jump in to my old role as release manager for

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Bortas
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Is the below information lifted straight from somewhere? There are a > couple of typos in it. If it was just for this email, no matter. It's straight from CHANGES, so feel free to fix them in git. :) Regards, -- Peter

Re: Pike 8.0 beta

2015-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Peter Bortas wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Is the below information lifted straight from somewhere? There are a >> couple of typos in it. If it was just for this email, no matter. > > It's

Pike 8.0 beta

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Bortas
I'm taking up an old tradition that haven't been practiced since 2008 as far as I can tell: Making releases on new years eve. Bill has been busy with other things, so I'll jump in to my old role as release manager for now. Pike 8.0.146 beta for your testing pleasures: