> The ones that depend on the Win 64 bit patch could be rewritten to apply > without it, > but it's a little hairy. Can someone vouch for the patch? Otherwise I will > probably defer those changes.
I suggest to defer it. > > The patch depending on flymake/elisp could have the latter added with no > problem, > but those files aren't ever added to the manifest, so this change would have > no > effect in a distribution tarball. [I consider this change to be > user-invisible > as far as stability goes anyway, as it has no functional effect and can be > retrieved from git if someone wants it.] If people still want it in > stability, > we need to patch the manifest in master. I forgot to add them to the manifest. I'll push a patch in a minute. I don't think this stuff is needed in stability, though. > > The symbol GC patch is skipped as per C-Keen. In fact given the troubles with > symbol GC, I am fine with declaring symbol GC as WONTFIX in 4.8.0.x and > disabling the stupid test, at least until it's absolutely rock solid. Yes, that sounds good. > I want to note that although I did apply nearly everything since > Peter was kind enough to find appropriate patches, I think it is not > really necessary to put so many patches into stability, just because it > is a lot of work for everybody. (We have already hit 50, exceeding the > number of > patches in 4.7.0 - 4.7.0.6. Perhaps I wasn't very thorough in 4.7.0.x, > although > nobody really complained.) Especially more trivial stuff like comments, > reformatting and even wiki syncs to the manual -- although the intent is to > make later patching easier, many times these patches cause conflicts > themselves. > Even a patch that just removes warnings isn't really *that* important in my > opinion. I don't mind applying these, even though I don't think they are that > valuable; perhaps others disagree. I think it makes sense to be very conservative regarding the stability branch. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers