Faré wrote:
Dear Robert,
I believe the plan to enable style-warnings for those using deprecated functions or missing useful metadata is great, but 1- justifies moving to version 3.2. 2- requires testing with a 3.2.0.x alpha release series that already have a version >= 3.2, so no magic problem occurs due to the change, as we had with the switch to 3.0.0. 3- is probably many months away at the current rate. 3- suggests releasing what we have now as 3.1.5.
What are your blockers to a 3.1.5 release (besides lots of testing and corresponding bug fixes)?
I really believe it would be nice to get the current bug fixes and clasp support out of the door before then. Last release 3.1.4 was in October; a lot of small fixes have happened since then, notably fixing default configuration on many systems, and things like chdir on abcl — or making asdf and uiop themselves comply with the latest metadata requirements (note that the test systems don't fulfill them.)
The only blocker I have right now is testing on Windows. The tests pass for me on all the implementations I have on both Linux and Mac OS X.
As far as implementations, I don't have clasp, mkcl, Genera, Corman, or ECL, and my clisp is woefully old. But other than that I have pretty good coverage.
I'm hoping we can get some Windows tests from Dave Cooper, and if those come through clean, we can release 3.1.5.
Cheers, r