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

[Felix Winkelmann]

> Would the intention be to move all primary development effort over to
> the 5 branch? How would 4.9 stability releases work? Most of the
> proposed 5 work is cleanup. Where would feature work be expected to be
> done? What work would be done before the first stable 5 release and what
> work would come in point releases after that?

These are all good questions, for which no answer can be given yet.  I
assume a "5" branch will be maintained in parallel, until it works
well enough to start suggesting to users to switch. If possible,
critical bug fixes should be done for both 4.9 and 5.x for as long as
possible. 


felix