Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 0/4] Some symbol and module-related patches

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 01:29:32PM +1200, Evan Hanson wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> > If there are no objections, I'll update the development process wiki page
> > accordingly and create a first snapshot from 38c4467f.
> 
> This has been done, and the first CHICKEN 5 snapshot is now available at:
> 
>   http://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2017/05/16/chicken-5.0.0pre1.tar.gz

Thanks for making the snapshot, Evan!  Now we can finally rip out all
that obsolete code \o/

> Should this be publicized more widely than chicken-hackers? I know that
> we normally do so for snapshots, but this release is mostly for
> bootstrapping and not really fit for public consumption (a simple "make
> check" will fail due to #1366, for example). Thoughts?

I'm a bit unsure myself.  On the one hand, it shows to the community that
we've been making steady progress and gives people an opportunity to have
a sneak preview of what's to come, and maybe provide early feedback and
bug reports.  On the other hand, you might get misguided efforts at
porting eggs and other code to this version, of which we know the API
will still change pretty drastically.

For now maybe it's best to leave it unannounced (except for here).
People who read this list will tend to know what they're doing.

Cheers,
Peter

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