[Chicken-users] feature freeze on CMake build

[Brandon J. Van Every]

I've found that getting the essentials ready for a release, has consumed 
a lot more time than I wished it would.  Therefore, I'm declaring "no 
new features" in the CMake build before the next release.  I want this 
out the door and for it to start getting tested in the field.  I don't 
want any additional complications as to what is tested, nor to do any 
more work that I can avoid doing.  I'm way behind on jobhunting and 
again, the threat of losing the roof over my head is real.  Got about 4 
weeks to solve that puzzle, gotta see some $$$ from somewhere.  If you 
know anyone who needs a good build engineer....

Anyways, this means:

- I will not worry about optimization flags on VS 7.1 for now.  The 
various Debug, Release, MinSizeRel, and RelWithDebInfo targets already 
have some.  It's not important to reach the uber-pinnacle of great flags 
right now.  I notice that makefile.vc doesn't have any special flags in 
it anyways, so it's not like anything is backsliding.

- I won't take any patches for rudimentary cross-compilation support, 
such as templating a sample Makefile, or building a totally stripped 
down Chicken (which I think should be canonically called a "chick".  
:-)  I think these are great ideas that I'd like to support in the 
future.  But for now, just use the abundant /boot/cfiles/*.c that are 
given to you.  If you develop proof-of-concept on your own, we can 
incorporate it later, when I have more time.

- I don't want Felix taking these things either.  I want a build with 
fewer variables kicked out the door as a beta release.  It's *my* 
reputation on the line about whether the 1st cut of the public CMake 
build is as good as I've been telling everybody it is.  I don't need the 
VS 7.1 equivalent of -fomit-frame-pointer crashing someone's 
chicken-boot, as it did on MinGW.  I'm taking a chance that it'll work 
ok on Cygwin as it is.  Sure it has historically worked in the Autoconf 
build, but Autoconf uses libtool, CMake doesn't, and who knows what 
difference that makes.

I believe I have only 2 CMake-related things left to clean up:

- make Darcs and the ChangeLog less of a hassle (minor issue, can blow off)
- make sure that Windows eggs work (major issue, must get done)


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every