Burnish the Bear this Friday on #abcl (was Re: Unable to quickload Drakma + CL+SSL on ABCL 1.3.2 - (Failed to read artifact descriptor for net.java.dev.jna:jna))

[Mark Evenson]

On 9/1/15 07:10, Paul Nathan wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I look forward to seeing ABCL 1.3.3.  I appreciate your quick response. I
> tend to avoid compiling my compilers from HEAD. :-)

A good practice, indeed!

> I am keen on testing my code against ABCL & SBCL side by side - it will be
> quite gratifying if I can report they both behave identically.

Gosh, September already?  We certainly could use a release.

Working through the [changes associated with the new ANSI-TEST git
repository][1] last night, I noticed that the patch to add
[#\No-break_space][2] seemingly fails many more tests than I would like
for reasons that are a little mysterious.  I'd like to figure out what
occurred here, then I would be ready to cut a release.

[1]: http://abcl.org/trac/changeset/14792
[2]: http://abcl.org/trac/changeset/14787

Fortunately, Erik and I have arranged to have an informal "Burnish the
Bear" day, this Friday, September 4, 2015 from 0800-1300 UTC coordinated
on #abcl.  The idea with such a session is to dedicate time taken out of
our professional schedules to resolving long-standing ABCL issues, of
which this will hopefully the first of a series.  All are welcome to
drop by #abcl to discuss outstanding issues, or just follow along.  The
main topic for this Friday was to be to look into [problems with
Drama][3] that begin to show the shaky foundations that our Gray stream
implementation rests upon.  But we might as well cut an abcl-1.3.3
release as well during the course of the day.

[3]: http://abcl.org/trac/ticket/377


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