I've wanted to do a GSoC for awhile, or instead of doing it through Google,
sponsor student work ourselves as a FactorSoC.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alex Vondrak <ajvond...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got asked an interesting question that I didn't know the answer to. Any
> thoughts on the 1.0 timeline? What sort of goals are we setting for that?
> I mean, the last time Slava threatened to release a 1.0 was in 2008, aiming
> for 2009:
> http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2008/08/factor-is-now-five-years-old.html
> And we only have a few minor versions left to use!
>
> Also, it occurs to me that we've yet to do a GSoC. Isn't that time
> approaching soon? (This probably enters the scope of a different thread...)
>
> --Alex Vondrak
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:44 PM, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "You're smart too late and old too soon." - Mike Tyson
>>
>> I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.96! You can
>> find download links on the Factor website:
>>
>> http://factorcode.org
>>
>> This release is brought to you with over 1,100 commits by the following
>> individuals:
>>
>> Alex Vondrak, Benjamin Pollack, Daniel Nagel, Doug Coleman, John
>> Benediktsson, Jon Harper, Michael T. Richter, and @PGGB.
>>
>> Aside from bug fixes and various library improvements, I want to
>> highlight the
>> following changes:
>>
>> * Major compiler improvements (thanks Alex Vondrak!):
>> * Global Value Numbering (disabled currently by default)
>> * Parallel-Copy Semantics
>> * Performance improvements to hashtables, hash-sets, heaps, and
>> bloom-filters.
>> * Support for Retina Displays on OS X
>> * Greatly improved table gadget performance
>> * PDF streams (and related PDF documentation)!
>> * Speed up math comparisons
>> * Support resize-window (thanks Jon Harper!)
>> * New logo and icons for Factor
>> * Added editor support for Textadept, Sublime Text, Geany, BBEdit, and
>> XCode.
>>
>> Some possible backwards compatibility issues:
>>
>> * Changed <groups>, <clumps>, and <circular-clumps> to use slices.
>> * Removed <slicing-groups>, <slicing-clumps>, <slicing-circular-clumps>.
>> * Renamed editors.notepadpp to editors.notepad++.
>>
>> For more details, please see the full announcement at:
>>
>> http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-available.html
>>
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