[e-lang] E 0.9.3 release?

[Mark Miller]

Candidate 0.9.3d is now at <http://www.erights.org/download/0-9-3/>

More later. Out of time now.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Thomas Leonard <
tal at it-innovation.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 19:11 -0800, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Thomas Leonard <talex5 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On 9 November 2010 12:01, Thomas Leonard
> >         <tal at it-innovation.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> >         > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 20:11 -0700, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> >         >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Thomas Leonard
> >         <talex5 at gmail.com>
> >         >> wrote:
> >         >>         The 0.9.2a release currently on the main web-site
> >         is rather
> >         >>         buggy. In
> >         >>         particular:
> >         >>
> >         >>         - it often fails to start (fixed in r718)
> >         >>         - it contains a known security flaw (fixed in r728)
> >         >>         - it suffers from various race conditions while
> >         running
> >         >>
> >         >>         Any chance of a 0.9.3 release?
> >         >>
> >         >>
> >         >> Yes, that's a good idea. I should be able to get to that in
> >         early
> >         >> December.
> >         >>
> >         >>
> >         >> Sorry I haven't been finding the time to review your
> >         outstanding
> >         >> changes. Could you maintain a page at wiki.erights.org
> >         pointing to
> >         >> outstanding changes, so that as I and others do find time
> >         to review
> >         >> these, we can easily find them? Thanks.
> >         >
> >         > Done: http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/User:ThomasLeonard
> >         >
> >         > I think the CapTP shutdown patches are the only ones that
> >         might be
> >         > useful in the next release.
> >         >
> >         > The Scope/EEnv split may be an API change, so it would make
> >         sense to get
> >         > a new stable release out first.
> >
> >
> >         Is there anything else needed for the next release? I snuck in
> >         a
> >         change to the caching of SQL statements, as a bit of profiling
> >         showed
> >         that most the time spent executing our SQL was actually
> >         converting the
> >         template to the new dlrHoles format! I'd be happy to leave the
> >         CapTP
> >         shutdown patches for the next version if that would speed up
> >         the
> >         release.
> >
> >
> > The CapTP shutdown patches are the ones I just approved? If so, let me
> > know when you've committed them and I'll build an post an E 0.9.3b.
> > And yes, let's leave the Scope/EEnv split for another time.
>
> I've committed those two to svn now:
>
> * Added static Runner.whenDead() method to register a deadManSwitch
> * Shut down VatTP automatically when its vat is shut down
>
> The other two are left for later:
>
> * Added "?? shutdown vat @vat" updoc directive
>
> http://gitorious.org/~tal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it-innovation/commit/3eb7e100a05e173bf1842a60c6e8b5c8afedb3ec<http://gitorious.org/%7Etal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it-innovation/commit/3eb7e100a05e173bf1842a60c6e8b5c8afedb3ec>
>
> * Added ReadOnlyFile.getCryptoHash()
>
> http://gitorious.org/~tal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it-innovation/commit/1001af9178cb166e673adff7171cd3ca479fc0bd<http://gitorious.org/%7Etal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it-innovation/commit/1001af9178cb166e673adff7171cd3ca479fc0bd>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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    --MarkM
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