Re: [Chicken-hackers] Updating stability...

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Updating stability...
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:27:52 +0100

> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:23:04AM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote:
>> This suggestion straddles the line between bug fix & feature addition. The 
>> recursive data structures were not properly descended so a fix. But adds 
>> globals for recursion limits.
>> 
>> [PATCH] Add recursive hash depth & length parameters. Make pair hash truley 
>> recursive.
>> 
>> (Misspelled 'truly'.)
>> 
>> These are the relevant commits:
>> 
>> commit 70d0ff929bb88ceb916c060e047d0541a9b20788
>> commit b0f25e9750594d29810ff56b0dc583d1e83ec7ca
>> commit 799b4b27a557232e6455791bdfd532f950f0fbdb
> 
> Hi Kon,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion.  I debated including these, but considered
> against them because, as you said, it's somewhere between bugfix and
> feature addition, and it's quite a number of changes.
> 
> It's safer to exclude it.  If it turns out to be a problem for people we
> can include it in 4.8.0.2.  What does everyone else think?

Sounds ok. I would probably include it, but if we define
"safe" as "not more broken than it already is", then leave it
out.


cheers,
felix