Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] adding support for letrec*

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

Just a heads up regarding this patch which could be viewed as
intrusive.

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 12:48:45PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> I've pushed this code, and we'll see what Salmonella
> says in the daily diff.

We found through Salmonella that only three eggs turned out to break
directly, and these were all pretty obviously bugs in the eggs
themselves.  The egg authors have been contacted and supplied with
patches.

> > If "letrec*" is intended to be used in the chicken-core, then it will
> > be essential to provide a bootstrapping tarball (in other words, a
> > development snapshot) and perhaps even add the change to stability, to
> > increase the chance that bootstrapping tarballs are available with
> > which to compile the system.
> 
> I think it's about time we tagged 4.8.2.  I think this can happen soon
> enough.  4.8.2 has an insane list of changes since 4.8.1 already.

This has now been done.  I'll announce it on -users once availabile.

Please take note that the next changes to be pushed need to be noted
under 4.8.3 in NEWS.

Cheers,
Peter
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