Re: Upcoming 0.26.0, please review release notes

[David Chisnall]

On 11 Dec 2017, at 10:46, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:43 AM, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 11 Dec 2017, at 10:33, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think it's also fine to push a new minor release *after* this
>>> release with just your changes. Does that make sense too?
>> 
>> It’s likely to change some of the -base / libobjc2 interfaces and possibly 
>> be a requirement of the new libobjc2, so I’d prefer a major version bump 
>> then, but it probably doesn’t have to be one.
>> 
>> I’ve committed the fixes for NSMapTable where we were using the wrong hash 
>> and equality functions if you use the normal constructors - those are 
>> probably the most important things to get out.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> I think that we can still do a major version bump in a few days, even
> if it includes "just" your new fixes.
> 
> I've just spent some time cutting -gui and -back so it would be a
> minor effort for me if I were to do it.


I had some time to finish up most of the changes and have sent a pull request 
for review.  I think I probably want to add a couple of weak functions for 
refcount manipulation that will allow either the runtime or -base to provide 
them, depending on the versions of each.

David