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Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
Created by admin on 2012-01-19.
Updated: 2012-01-19, 23:44
A milestone release for Scala is now available. This release is cut directly from current development and is not intended for production environments, but is a great chance to try out the up and coming features for Scala 2.10.0.
Included in this release are:
- Preliminary Reflection API
- faster inliner
- scaladoc improvements (Thanks docspree folks!)
- virtualized pattern matcher
- many more!
Expect monthly milestone released for 2.10.0 before it enters an official release cycle. Get your feedback and suggestions in early!
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Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
Any language changes, and if so are they documented somewhere? Hard to know what to look at just from the ScalaDoc.
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
Seconded. I do follow the various user groups etc., and I still haven't been able to figure out what's new and what to expect from the milestone... some sort of release notes are definitely required.
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
Yeah, is there anywhere we can look to see what the various features are for the different milestones in the Scala 2.10 roadmap? Thanks.
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
I 4th the comment, I'm totally new to Scala and having a hell of a time learning the language despite about a decade of Java experience.
I would offer the newb observation that the biggest obstacle to Scala adoption is the apparent lack of backwards comparability version to version and very poor documentation.
While I can understand the desire not to maintain backwards compatibility, hell we're still carrying deprecated baggage from Java 1.0 & 1.1, it's lack (I'm assuming here, I've not missed something along the way) represents a risk to any investment I make in personal projects and is definitely sufficient to prevent me being a Scala advocate at work.
While I believe this problem is more fundamental, good release notes would go a long way in mitigation, even if it slows the development process overall. I would offer the thought; there's no value in developing the next best thing since sliced bread if nobody can read the ingredients.
$0.02 has been deposited :-)
Ray
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
We'll be preparing better release notes for subsequent milestones. The first one was targetted mostly at core Scala developers and core Scala libraries developers that follow closely scala-internals mailing list and even commit messages. We didn't want to advertise this release too much because it's just too early for broader audience to test it.
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
You want people helping you testing the release, yet you give no info ?
Aren't you extremely limiting the number of people than can test this candidate ?
You do a fantastic job with Scala, and I cannot thank you enough for it. But as far as promoting it , it is another matter.
Same thing for Akka, the RC for Akka version 2 is out, it is not even shown on the site main page. Wake up ???
For development your awesome, but get some marketing !
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
"You want people helping you testing the release..."
Well, they really do *not* want most people downloading and testing the release. Milestone releases are not release candidates -- they are not code complete and they are unpolished. A milestone is a "stake in the ground" for the much smaller body of folks who work on the core of the language. You could argue that there should be a separate "internal developer page" for such announcements, but even as an outsider I like seeing them because it gives me some sense of progress toward a release candidate. Typically there are at least a couple of months between the last milestone release and the first release candidate.
@Zaphod*, since you are trying to learn Scala I imagine you are really just curious about upcoming features. I agree that it would indeed be nice if there were a continuously updated Roadmap page.
By the way, neither has a release candidate been produced for Akka 2.0 -- just a couple of milestones. I'll be happy to see that RC!
And to the folks developing Scala and Akka, a big thanks: you have made doing this work a lot more enjoyable and fulfilling. Please interpret any impatience as a measure of how much people value what you have done so far. :^)
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
I totally agree with this statement:
"And to the folks developing Scala and Akka, a big thanks: you have made doing this work a lot more enjoyable and fulfilling. Please interpret any impatience as a measure of how much people value what you have done so far."
But I stand by my statement that they need some marketing.
Re: Scala 2.10.0 Milestone 1 is released!
Is this compatible with 2.9?
Can we have a road map of where thins are going with a list of features and what is implimneted.