[m-rev.] for review: deconstruct.named_arg for java

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Ian MacLarty wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Julien Fischer
> <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
>>
>>> Branches: main
>>
>> Is there any reason not to include this on the 10.04 branch?
>>
>
> I can think of one:  it will delay the release even further.  If we're
> going to change to a 6 monthly release cycle, we need to *not* add new
> features to the release branch.  New features can go in the next
> version.

This one won't delay the release, and I think the more of the stdlib
that 10.04 supports in the java (and erlang) grade(s) the better.

> BTW is there anything holding up the release at the moment?

Ideally, I wanted to improve the documentation in the user's guide for
mmc --make, but it looks like I won't have time before I head overseas.
(So, that can go into 10.04.1)

In my view the remaining tasks for 10.04 are:

* I want to sort out this issue with source distribution (bug #115)
   that came up the other day.  (There is a workaround in place, but I am
   currently testing a proper fix.)

* Bug #153 needs to be looked at.

* I have a reference manual change that documents MR_word_to_float and
   friends that nees to go in.  (I also have an addition to
   samples/c_interface that provides a more thorough illustration of the C
   data passing conventions.)

* I think we really need some examples of how to use the Java and Erlang
   interfaces, in samples/java_interface and samples/erlang_interface.

* zs is unhappy about the number of warnings that are generated by gcc
   when compiling things in asm_fast.  (We should identify what is going
   on here at least.)  (Someone suggested grepping the warnings out, but
   I don't see how you can do that with mmc --make -- particularly on
   systems that don't have grep!)

Julien.
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