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

[Ivan Raikov]

 I would think that support for Chicken 2 & 3 should be dropped after a Chicken 5 branch is made.

If anyone desperately needs Chicken 3, would it not be better to migrate the Chicken 3 stuff to another server?

I had also implicitly assumed that the modularisation changes would help bring full R7RS support to core.
Is this not the case? What are the goals for a Chicken 5 release?

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> wrote:

Sorry for the sudden jump to those topics. :-)

In fact, as a user, I was just trying to bring some topics that are
practical issues and that we could piggyback with the breaking changes
to make a major release.

I'm not sure reorganizing the core and making it smaller justifies a
major release.  I understand some changes caused by the core
reorganization may break code, but I'm looking at major releases from a
user standpoint.  What immediate benefit do those changes bring for
users?  Maybe R7RS support?  Are those changes worth the breakage?

Please, note that I'm not against those changes.  Not at all,
absolutely.  I'm totally for them.  I just wonder if they justify a
major release and and all the burden to maintain another major version.

I mentioned Unicode and bignums because, in my opinion, they are quite
important for practical applications, and the support CHICKEN provides
for them at the moment is not very appealing.  Since you mentioned a new
major release, why not making them part of it?  Of course the obvious,
realistic and straight-to-the-point answers are "lack of manpower" and
"lack of consensus on those topics", I know.