Update on abcl-1.9.0 release

[Robert Goldman]

Do you have thoughts about what's too old a version of ABCL to worry about?

I have some notes in the tests that cause test skipping if ABCL is older than 1.3, which seems like chaff that I could get rid of.

Considering possibly updating the ASDF tests to just puke once at the beginning for ancient implementation versions, to avoid lots of this cruft.

On 9 May 2022, at 2:29, Mark Evenson wrote:

> As of today, Monday, May 8, abcl-1.9.0 has not been released.  The rc-1 version of the [release artifacts][1.9.0] has been made public but without PGP signatures.  There are a number of smallish looking bugs with the 2022-04-01 Quicklisp that I will try to quickly address today, intending to finish the release process soonish.
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> [1.9.0]:  https://abcl.org/releases/1.9.0
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> If you have additional patches or bug reports please get them in soon.
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