Re: updated NEWS, release tomorrow

[Julian Graham]

Thanks, Andy (and Neil and Ludovic and everyone else), for the
continued hard work!  Still can't believe how much progress has
already been made.


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Andy Wingo<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I've updated the NEWS as best I could for happenings between 1.9.0 and
> 1.9.1. They're notable to us, but fortunately many of the changes since
> the last release are just changes to 1.9 code that won't be visible to a
> 1.8 user. Anyway, check the NEWS, or if you're too lazy and everything
> goes well, just check your inbox tomorrow.
>
> I should apologize for lack of responsiveness over the last couple
> weeks. I started poking at uniform vectors, and that code is the
> badness. It's arrays and generalized vectors and uniform vectors and
> bitvectors and bytevectors and normal vectors &c &c, and instead of
> there being some kind of orthogonal exposition of the types, *all of the
> code calls each other*. It's nutty.
>
> Trying to straighten out the mess, the mess pulled me in instead, a big
> open parenthesis... I have a branch working more or less, but it won't
> be ready for review for another week or so.
>
> Did I mention that the code makes the pun "ra" for "array", apparently
> to conserve electrons?
>
> Anyway, distcheck passes, so Ludovic if you don't mind, the repo seems
> to be in a releasable state. Let me know if I can help in any other way;
> I'll be working but online tomorrow should you need me.