Thanks, Andy (and Neil and Ludovic and everyone else), for the continued hard work! Still can't believe how much progress has already been made.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Andy Wingo<wi...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've updated the NEWS as best I could for happenings between 1.9.0 and > 1.9.1. They're notable to us, but fortunately many of the changes since > the last release are just changes to 1.9 code that won't be visible to a > 1.8 user. Anyway, check the NEWS, or if you're too lazy and everything > goes well, just check your inbox tomorrow. > > I should apologize for lack of responsiveness over the last couple > weeks. I started poking at uniform vectors, and that code is the > badness. It's arrays and generalized vectors and uniform vectors and > bitvectors and bytevectors and normal vectors &c &c, and instead of > there being some kind of orthogonal exposition of the types, *all of the > code calls each other*. It's nutty. > > Trying to straighten out the mess, the mess pulled me in instead, a big > open parenthesis... I have a branch working more or less, but it won't > be ready for review for another week or so. > > Did I mention that the code makes the pun "ra" for "array", apparently > to conserve electrons? > > Anyway, distcheck passes, so Ludovic if you don't mind, the repo seems > to be in a releasable state. Let me know if I can help in any other way; > I'll be working but online tomorrow should you need me.
