Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 12 Dec 2017, at 16:34, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
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> 
>> Am 11.12.2017 um 17:45 schrieb David Chisnall <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> On 11 Dec 2017, at 10:46, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:43 AM, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 11 Dec 2017, at 10:33, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> I think it's also fine to push a new minor release *after* this
>>>>> release with just your changes. Does that make sense too?
>>>> 
>>>> It’s likely to change some of the -base / libobjc2 interfaces and possibly 
>>>> be a requirement of the new libobjc2, so I’d prefer a major version bump 
>>>> then, but it probably doesn’t have to be one.
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve committed the fixes for NSMapTable where we were using the wrong hash 
>>>> and equality functions if you use the normal constructors - those are 
>>>> probably the most important things to get out.
>>> 
>>> Makes sense.
>>> 
>>> I think that we can still do a major version bump in a few days, even
>>> if it includes "just" your new fixes.
>>> 
>>> I've just spent some time cutting -gui and -back so it would be a
>>> minor effort for me if I were to do it.
>> 
>> 
>> I had some time to finish up most of the changes and have sent a pull 
>> request for review.  I think I probably want to add a couple of weak 
>> functions for refcount manipulation that will allow either the runtime or 
>> -base to provide them, depending on the versions of each.
>> 
> 
> I had a short look at your pull request and in my opinion it is too complex 
> to be merged directly before a release with out proper testing on a lot of 
> different machines. We should make a release without it and merge directly 
> after that and with a few months of general testing a new release should be 
> done.

That's my impression also, but I've only had a chance to take a very, very 
quick skim through part of the changes.
I'll try to look through more thoroughly tomorrow.