Re: 1.8 time frame?

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Have you considered moving to a regular release schedule (like the
> > GNOME project does?).
> 
> Hmm, my feeling is that this will not work very well with Guile since
> Guile is a much smaller project with fewer people working on it.

OTOH, there do seem to be a number of people *using* guile. Having a
release known to occur at X time could motivate these people to
contribute because their efforts would be distributed widely.

For instance, I feel no urge to switch to 1.7 because I have no idea
when 1.8 will be out, and I don't want to make apps without
dependencies. Others probably think the same, which deprives the
newly-ploughed 1.7 codebase of testing.

I see where you're coming from, and it does take good, coordinated
programmers to work on a language interpreter. Still, some people could
help that aren't now.

Regards,
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Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
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