[bug#27568] Bigloo update

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello gentlefolks,

Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:

> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Kei,
>>
>> On 03/07/17 21:36, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>>> These two packages should be updated at the same time, as the old hop
>>> won't build with the new bigloo.
>>> 
>>> I'd feel better if a bigloo and hop user verified that everything still
>>> works as it should.
>>
>> I'm afraid I can't help you with that, but I can always ask annoying
>> questions: why the update to a release candidate?
>>
>
> Mainly because the existing (stable?) hop wasn't building correctly and
> had mysteriously absent make targets.
>
>> The web site[1] left me more confused than I entered. The ‘file you
>> should download if you want to build the Hop stable [sic] version from
>> the sources’ is the even less stable-looking hop-3.1.0-pre1.tar.gz...
>>
>
> The same thing happened to me! I noticed that hop version 3.1.x only
> existed in the developer's git repository on GitHub[2], so I just got
> the latest available source tarball from the FTP server.

Hop 3.x has been in the works for a couple of years but I think they
never put out a proper release.

So I think it’s OK to upgrade to this “RC”.  (Even though I preferred
2.5 since 3.x is actually a JavaScript implementation…)

As for testing, I’d say that if the tests pass, that’s OK.

Thank you!

Ludo’.