RE: GNU Parallel 20180722 ('Crimson Hexagon') released [alpha]

[Cook, Malcolm]

Ole - 

Can you possibly provide examples of how changing the quoting engine might 
change how parallel is invoked?

Or is the intention that there is no change?

Thanks

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Parallel <parallel-bounces+mec=stowers.org@gnu.org> On Behalf Of
 > Ole Tange
 > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:54 AM
 > To: parallel <parallel@gnu.org>; bug-parallel <bug-parallel@gnu.org>
 > Subject: GNU Parallel 20180722 ('Crimson Hexagon') released [alpha]
 > 
 > GNU Parallel 20180722 ('Crimson Hexagon') [alpha] has been released.
 > It is available for download at: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/
 > 
 > This release has significant changes and is considered alpha quality.
 > 
 > Quote of the month:
 > 
 >   I've been using GNU Parallel very much and effectively lately.
 >   Such an easy way to get huge speed-ups with my simple bash/Perl/Python
 >   programs -- parallelize them!
 >     -- Ken Youens-Clark @kycl4rk@twitter
 > 
 > New in this release:
 > 
 > * The quoting engine has been changed. Instead of using \-quoting GNU
 > Parallel now uses '-quoting in bash/ash/dash/ksh. This should improve
 > compatibility with different locales. This is a big change causing
 > this release to be alpha quality.
 > 
 > * The CPU calculation has changed. By default GNU Parallel uses the
 > number of CPU threads as the number of CPUs. This can be changed to
 > the number of CPU cores or number of CPU sockets with
 > --use-cores-instead-of-threads or --use-sockets-instead-of-threads.
 > 
 > * The detected number of sockets, cores, and threads can be shown with
 > --number-of-sockets, --number-of-cores, and --number-of-threads.
 > 
 > * env_parallel now support mksh using env_parallel.mksh.
 > 
 > * GNU Parallel is distributed as part of Snippy
 > https://github.com/tseemann/snippy
 > 
 > * GNU Parallel: Ejecutar comandos simultáneamente en Linux
 > https://esgeeks.com/gnu-parallel-ejecutar-comandos-simultaneo-linux/
 > 
 > * Parallel download genomic data with GNU-Parallel
 > https://digibio.blogspot.com/search/label/GNU-Parallel
 > 
 > * Bug fixes and man page updates.
 > 
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 > 
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 > 
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 > 
 > O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, April 2018,
 > https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.
 > 
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