Hi Akim, On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > I think we should roll 2.4.2 soon. I can do it if you're too busy. > > I don't see when I would do it :( I'm sorry I failed you on this one, I > meant to release it some time ago. But never managed to spend enough > time on it. Don't worry about it. I've been preoccupied as well. > Please, proceed whenever you fee like doing it. Ok, thanks, I'll do that soon. > > Maybe we should just postpone the survey until after > > the 2.4.2 release. > > Yes, maybe we should. Ok, I won't include it in 2.4.2. > At Gostai, we recently discovered > http://uservoice.com/. I've not used it yet, but it looks very nice. I just took a quick look. It does look nice, but I don't see any mention of the source code, so I'm guessing the FSF would not approve. > > In any case, I'm growing less inclined to ask our users for permission to > > move to C99 in the front-end. I've been finding it difficult to resist on > > the 2.5 and master branches. C99 is over a decade old, so I think we > > should feel free to move forward. Of course, I understand that the > > backend is a different issue. > > I concur. Great. > Actually, the other question is moving to C++ :) Yep. I'm thinking 2.7 or later seems like a good target. Definitely not 2.5.
