Re: port some changes from master to branch-2.5

[Joel E. Denny]

Hi Akim,

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Akim Demaille wrote:

> > I think we should roll 2.4.2 soon.  I can do it if you're too busy.  
> 
> I don't see when I would do it :( I'm sorry I failed you on this one, I 
> meant to release it some time ago.  But never managed to spend enough 
> time on it.

Don't worry about it.  I've been preoccupied as well.

> Please, proceed whenever you fee like doing it.

Ok, thanks, I'll do that soon.

> > Maybe we should just postpone the survey until after 
> > the 2.4.2 release.
> 
> Yes, maybe we should.

Ok, I won't include it in 2.4.2.

> At Gostai, we recently discovered 
> http://uservoice.com/.  I've not used it yet, but it looks very nice.

I just took a quick look.  It does look nice, but I don't see any mention 
of the source code, so I'm guessing the FSF would not approve.

> > In any case, I'm growing less inclined to ask our users for permission to 
> > move to C99 in the front-end.  I've been finding it difficult to resist on 
> > the 2.5 and master branches.  C99 is over a decade old, so I think we 
> > should feel free to move forward.  Of course, I understand that the 
> > backend is a different issue.
> 
> I concur.

Great.

> Actually, the other question is moving to C++ :)

Yep.  I'm thinking 2.7 or later seems like a good target.  Definitely not 
2.5.