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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes


From: Oleg Kolosov
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR #1142 and upcoming changes
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:08:23 +0400
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On 08/18/14 20:41, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi Felix and all,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:53:22 +0200 (CEST) Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure how to go on with the CR-related changes. 
>>
>> I wonder whether it isn't better to postpone releasing these changes,
>> by creating development branches and switch in one step to CHICKEN 5,
>> which would have a number of advantages over doing all that in a
>> piecewise fashion:
>>
> 
> Not related with removing units from the core, but since we are talking
> about CHICKEN 5, shouldn't we consider discussing some polemic topics
> like the support for Unicode and bignums in core?  Those are limitations
> that recently lead to some ugly hacks (some examples in [1]) and bugs
> (e.g., [2]).
> 

Or we can declare that CHICKEN 5 != 5.0 and go on with the breakage. I'm
concerned that trying to fit everything into 5.0 will never finish -
there could be lengthy discussions about proposed features and no
action. Personally, I think that modularizing the core is of utmost
importance now, fixing eggs and adding features could be postponed to
some later point releases.

-- 
Regards, Oleg



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