Re: [Chicken-hackers] experimental branch

[Felix]

From: Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] experimental branch
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:39:24 +0200

> 
> You are free to do whatever you want! :) I am not sure what your goal
> is there though. Salmonella atm can only test whatever is in git. So
> if you work hard on the latest and greatest stuff, we will know it
> breaks only after it hits the master branch. So maybe that also isn't
> that less stress you hope for?

I meant that I will develop directly on master. Only long-term work
(like "specialization") is intended to be on separate branches. So,
you will know soon enough when things break. :-)

> 
> Also I am a bit confused about the branches that are currently on git.
> Which of these are considered "private" which are for the adventurous?
> So far I always liked (and run) the experimental branch. 

Just use "master" if you are adventurous. The other branches are:

expander-simplifications         Peter Bex' branch for expander fixes
specialization                   Optimizations based on an enhanced scrutinizer
                                 (soon to be merged)
fat-symbols[-bootstrap]          An experiment to implement "lazy" print-name
                                 generation for gensyms (disappointing results,
                                 and currently stale)
irregex-bugfixes                 Also by Peter Bex for irregex changes
prerelease                       Staging branch for development on releases
release                          Branch for the next release
spiffy-debug                     obsolete

The others I have deleted. No branch is "private", try whatevery you want.

> In any case http://wiki.call-cc.org/release-policy should reflect the
> current state of things or be deleted from the wiki.

True. I will update this page. Thanks for the reminder.


cheers,
felix