October 2006 Archives

Two days ago, I announced the freeze of the current code base of mcclim. All in all, that doesn’t sound like it’s much different from the previous freeze (which failed), but this time:

• The freeze period is much shorter - projected release date is November 2nd;
• Both the test status as well as the release notes are on the mcclim cliki, and visible to all.
• I actually have the time and the energy to take care of these things.

I hope that this time, it will work out.

If you want to test mcclim before we release, feel free to report your results on IRC, on the test status page, or on the mcclim-devel mailing list.

This made me laugh:

COBOL: Without me there wouldn’t be PCs.

FORTRAN: Without me there wouldn’t be H-Bombs.

Oh, and the lisp story in Pupeno’s comment is way better than the one in the original article.

As mentioned on the sbcl-devel mailing list, I have turned off syncing between the SBCL CVS repository and the SBCL Arch archive.

The arch archive is still reachable, it just won’t show any new patches in future. If you would like to volunteer to continue the repository syncing service for the cvs->arch, I’ll happily turn over my hacked tla and cscvs source trees, database, and conversion scripts.

If you still used the Arch archive and would like to continue using a patchset-ified full history of the SBCL repository, I suggest you try out the SBCL git repository (get it via git clone git://sbcl.boinkor.net/sbcl.git/). It’s both faster and more functional than the arch archive, and has conversion tools that work really well.

Update: the git repository url was wrong. Please use git://sbcl.boinkor.net/sbcl.git/ or http://sbcl.boinkor.net/git/sbcl-beta.git/ if you tried to download from the old url before.