Changeset 25559 in project

Timestamp:

11/23/11 16:22:36 (9 years ago)

Author:

andyjpb

Message:

Final version of the gazette 21 copy.

File:

• gazette/src/issues/21.wiki (modified) (6 diffs)

gazette/src/issues/21.wiki

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 == 0. Introduction
 
-Welcome to the 21st issue of the Chicken Gazette. While the gazette
-was on hiatus the chicken community was definitely not.
-
-With the stabilisation of Chicken 4.7 well underway since the last
-gazette...
-
-Some people have also started to set up salmonella farms and C-Keen
-has completed his "Chicken Zoo".
-
-Enjoy!
+Welcome to the 21st issue of the Chicken Gazette.
+
+In this issue we have updates on several parts of the Chicken community,
+including trips, meetups, eggs, testing as well as developments in the core itself.
+Over in [[#omelette-recipes|the Omelette section]] we have the second installment of
+[[http://wiki.call-cc.org/users/alaric-blagrave-snellpym|Alaric Snell-Pym]]'s
+much coveted "financial book-keeping in scheme" series.
+
+Rounding up all the changes since the last edition has been a rather involved
+task which wouldn't have been possible without the friendly help of all my
+contributors and fellow editors in the
+[[http://wiki.call-cc.org/discussion-groups#irc|#chicken chat channel]], so
+many, many thanks are due to them. Also, if you haven't already joined us in
+[[http://wiki.call-cc.org/discussion-groups#irc|#chicken]], pop in and chat about
+Chicken specific aspects of scheme.
+
+
+Enjoy and look out for issue 22 soon!
 
 
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 Nicolas struggled with disabling the apply hack ([[http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-11/msg00015.html|2011/11/10 11:10Z]])
 due to the Two Lies Of The README. Over the course of the next few minutes [[http://wiki.call-cc.org/users/christian-kellermann|Christian]]
-and [[http://wiki.call-cc.org/users/mario-domenech-goulart|Mario Domenech Goulart]]]
+and [[http://wiki.call-cc.org/users/mario-domenech-goulart|Mario Domenech Goulart]]
 confirmed that the lies, which related to the way bootstrap compilers are distributed and invoked, had
 already been fixed in the development versions.
@@ -209 +217 @@
 on [[http://tests.call-cc.org/]]
 
-There is also [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella|an entirely new version of Salmonella]] over at github so test that too. The new version is more modular -- some features that were previously built in salmonella are now independent eggs (e.g., [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella-html-report|salmonella-html-report]] and [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella-feeds|salmonella-feeds]].  There's also a new egg that provides a new feature: [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella-diff|salmonella-diff]] which generates HTML output to render differences between two salmonella logs.
+There is also [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella|an entirely new version of Salmonella]] over at github so test that too. The new version is more modular -- some features that were previously built in salmonella are now independent eggs (e.g., [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella-html-report|salmonella-html-report]] and [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella-feeds|salmonella-feeds]]).  There's also a new egg that provides a new feature: [[https://github.com/mario-goulart/salmonella-diff|salmonella-diff]] which generates HTML output to render differences between two salmonella logs.
 
 Here's short list of new salmonella features:
@@ -263 +271 @@
 process a bit as can be seen on
 [[http://wiki.call-cc.org/development-process|its wiki page]]. Others
-already joined in the discussion of patches on
-[[https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers|chicken-hackers]]
+already joined in the discussion of patches on the
+[[https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers|chicken-hackers mailing list]]
 and you are more than welcome to join in.
 
@@ -277 +285 @@
 * Install the chicken and run tests: {{make install && make check}}
 
-
-sparc64
-mario, felix
-lots of bug fixes, sparc64 support
-
- * On origin/master:
-   * (e1a5437): when conditional branches differ in the number of results, do not merge the results (felix, 2 days ago)
-   * (bae7d92): clustering optimization added (felix, 5 weeks ago)
-   * (b1907c5): use different default stack-sizes on 32/64 bit platforms (felix, 6 days ago)
-   * (986bd3f): disable apply-hack on sparc64 (felix, 6 days ago)
-   * (28a36bf): Remove scripts/make-egg-rss-feed.scm (imported into the chicken-infrastructure repo) (Mario Domenech Goulart, 5 days ago)
-   * (fbeffd1): scripts/tools.scm: needs regex for `string-match' (Mario Domenech Goulart, 5 days ago)
-   * (1fca9c6): use equal? in case MSYSTEM is not defined (makedist.scm) (felix, 6 days ago)
-   * (42a8263): don't remove build-info files on make confclean or it is not possible to build from a tarball without preinstalled chicken (felix, 9 days ago)
-   * (3bb9645): write debugging output for optimizations into generated source file (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (e7fe2fb): allow procedure in operator-position of evaluated list (#705, suggested by John Cowan) (felix, 2 weeks ago)
-   * (e2fb31c): fix subtype check for fixed-size list/vector types in scrutinizer (felix, 10 days ago)
-   * (fd018df): strip std-envs of non-std identifiers, ignore ##sys#macro-environment when evaluating with an explicit environment (felix, 13 days ago)
-   * (fe8f63c): minor change in port-tests.scm to handle case when HOME is not defined (Windows) (felix, 2 weeks ago)
-   * (723a469): cut of union types above a certain length (felix, 2 weeks ago)
-   * (919a7c7): fixes in build + Windows test script, added note to README (thanks to mario) (felix, 2 weeks ago)
-   * (ddb96f9): Also added runtests.bat to manifest. (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (0df9bb8): another trivial fix for making boot-chicken work on cmd.exe (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (cea668f): trivial Windows-related corrections in rules.make, found by Mario - not yet working, though (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (1bc311d): undocumented scrutinize declaration (obsolete), reported by ckeen (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (10494f6): fixed stupid paren-matching error (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (f9a6702): disable debug output in scrutinizer (felix, 5 weeks ago)
-   * (2483f8d): check not necessary for lambda and  warn if using keyword as variable in binding form (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (aa6b2bb): cleaning up uninitialized variables in C_reclaim, add debug output to C_mutate on m-stack resize, grow m-stack at higher rate (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (1e04156): use write-string port-class method (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (59cdaaf): remove obsolete C_h_... allocation functions (pointed out by Joerg Wittenberger) (felix, 3 weeks ago)
-   * (159611d): handle macro-aliases when resolving declared identifier, making sure things are done right inside modules. (felix, 4 weeks ago)
-   * (0cc88a4): removed obsolete file (felix, 4 weeks ago)
-   * (1f56f3a): ##core#type makes subtype-check optional; quit compile when type-mismatches in strict mode (felix, 5 weeks ago)
 
 
@@ -329 +303 @@
 focussing on ones that were announced or discussed on the [[https://wiki.call-cc.org/mailing-lists|mailing list]].
 
-TODO: Write about the distributed egg repository
-
 By far the most notable thing to have happened is the announcment and implementation of the new
-Egg management system.
+[[http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/msg00160.html|distributed egg system]],
+written by Chicken Hackers during the [[#cologne-march-2011|Cologne Chicken Meetup in March]].
 
 * [[http://wiki.call-cc.org/users/ivan-raikov|Ivan Raikov]]'s [[http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-10/msg00058.html|proposal]]