Hi,
Attila Lendvai wrote:
Seems like iterate is a little bit frozen, just like many other lisp projects (newbie impression).
Actually, it's not. At least in my eyes. I'd say there's a distributed maintenance problem. I've been maintaining the Iterate code and documentation for the last year, but I don't have write access to common-lisp.net. So far, Marco has kindly maintained the website, putting the .lisp online. I sent him updates once a while, but somehow, some updates got lost, or my archives where somehow unreadable or whatever happened, nobody knows. It's true that the webpages have not been modified for ages. They are out of date. It's true that I've too little time for the many things I'd like to do.
Background: I've accidentally sent a patch for yaclml that used first-iteration-p.
Oops, that's too early, but not a great problem in practice. In a couple of years, nobody will remember that. I'm serious :) I'm sorry time prevented me from sending you feedback for the last patch. I'll do so asap.
BTW, you're welcome to dig further into the Iterate codebase.
So if there's anything I can help with feel free to delegate some todo's...
Updating the webpages comes into mind, and snippets of TeX documentation for the clauses you wish added (just write ASCII in the style of the iterate manual, I can TeXify the text).
Regards, Jörg Höhle.
Seems like iterate is a little bit frozen, just like many other lisp projects (newbie impression).
Actually, it's not. At least in my eyes. I'd say there's a distributed maintenance problem.
well, that's wasn't fair from me... actually what i am missing is only a publically accessible repository preferrably with two branches, a dev and a release branch.
i usually check out the dev branches of opensource projects and update them from time to time. when i find a bug, i first update the dev branch, try again and if it's still there try to fix and send patches.
darcs is a very good friend in this, because you can have several versions locally. (in fact every checkout is a branch)
I've been maintaining the Iterate code and documentation for the last year, but I don't have write access to common-lisp.net.
well, i think we should do something about it. unfortunately that's all i can help in this: admin (at) common-lisp (dot) net
Background: I've accidentally sent a patch for yaclml that used first-iteration-p.
Oops, that's too early, but not a great problem in practice. In a couple of years, nobody will remember that. I'm serious :) I'm sorry time prevented me from sending you feedback for the last patch. I'll do so asap.
no worries, and thanks for your comments! i'll fix it up, add some doc, remove the (safety 3) changes and send a new version.
- attila
(alias 101 on irc &no 'its not lisp code :)
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Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril