Re: Time to make a 5.2.0 release candidate?

2019-12-28 Thread John Cowan
I should mention that credit goes mostly to Alex Shinn and only some of it to me. And yes, giving an explicit PLATFORM always works; this code is triggered only if PLATFORM is not defined. As opposed to empty, in which case you get, as an artifact of how it's implemented, the good old "Set

Re: Time to make a 5.2.0 release candidate?

2019-12-28 Thread felix . winkelmann
> Hi Peter, > > On 12/28/19 4:42 PM, Peter Bex wrote: > > I think we're about ready to start the process for a 5.2.0 > > release. What do you think? Should we wait for the eggs > > from #1655 to be fixed? > > > > What about the plaform auto-detection patch? > > IMO we should try to fix the eggs

Re: Time to make a 5.2.0 release candidate?

2019-12-28 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi Peter, On 12/28/19 4:42 PM, Peter Bex wrote: I think we're about ready to start the process for a 5.2.0 release. What do you think? Should we wait for the eggs from #1655 to be fixed? What about the plaform auto-detection patch? IMO we should try to fix the eggs but wait until after a

Time to make a 5.2.0 release candidate?

2019-12-28 Thread Peter Bex
Hi all, I think we're about ready to start the process for a 5.2.0 release. What do you think? Should we wait for the eggs from #1655 to be fixed? What about the plaform auto-detection patch? Cheers, Peter signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Patch for autodetection of platforms

2019-12-28 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:19:16AM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > Here's the second patch I mentioned on #chicken. Hi John, I've tried these two patches, but found several problems with them: - The endif in the second patch is misplaced, so on UNIX, platform detection was skipped completely.

Re: [PATCH] make -:hs0 truly disable heap shrinking

2019-12-28 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:09:12AM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > Hi! > > "-:hs0" is currently ineffective, since validity checks between parsing > the option and initializing the heap overwrite the setting. > > This patch initializes the heap-parameter variables statically, >