Re: Scala 2.10.0-M1 is out!

On 20/01/2012 14:46, Edmondo Porcu wrote:

CAM-vFRxrV7GKq94hVWxG9aFEKO3WjpGgFb1FXETUSGsWSekVVQ [at] mail [dot] gmail [dot] com" type="cite">Where can I find informations about the faster inliner? :)
Best Regards

2012/1/20 Sciss <contact [at] sciss [dot] de" rel="nofollow">contact@sciss.de>

cool, now only one question

       • Preliminary Reflection API
       • faster inliner
       • scaladoc improvements (Thanks docspree folks!)
       • virtualized pattern matcher
       • many more!

where do I find out about any of these? what is the preliminary reflection API, what is the virtualized pattern matcher? And then, what is many more?

:) best, -sciss-

Well, perhaps it was why the Scala team didn't issued an annoncment here :)

To be crystal clear: I have nothing to deal with Scala compiler dev, I'm just a Scala user who saw the announcement on scala-lang.

On the other hand, I know that several of these subject were discussed in that mailing list, or Scala language, or Scala dev one.

Sheers,

-- 
Francois ARMAND
http://fanf42.blogspot.com
http://www.normation.com

a lot (all?) of these discussions were on scala-internals *or* the publically viewable pull-request of github.com/scala/scala 
Example:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/Pnf7DGVaVmw
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/dlqPuc7Xggs
https://github.com/scala/scala/pulls

I apologize for not having a better feature list this time.   We'll have a much better one ready for milestone 2 next month.

- Josh

PS, you can check the SIPs, I couldn't remember which ones are feature complete

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Francois <fanf42@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20/01/2012 14:46, Edmondo Porcu wrote:

Where can I find informations about the faster inliner? :)
Best Regards

2012/1/20 Sciss <contact@sciss.de>

cool, now only one question

       • Preliminary Reflection API
       • faster inliner
       • scaladoc improvements (Thanks docspree folks!)
       • virtualized pattern matcher
       • many more!

where do I find out about any of these? what is the preliminary reflection API, what is the virtualized pattern matcher? And then, what is many more?

:) best, -sciss-

Well, perhaps it was why the Scala team didn't issued an annoncment here :)

To be crystal clear: I have nothing to deal with Scala compiler dev, I'm just a Scala user who saw the announcement on scala-lang.

On the other hand, I know that several of these subject were discussed in that mailing list, or Scala language, or Scala dev one.

Sheers,

-- 
Francois ARMAND
http://fanf42.blogspot.com
http://www.normation.com

Hey Josh,

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Josh Suereth <joshua.suereth@gmail.com> wrote:

I apologize for not having a better feature list this time.   We'll have a much better one ready for milestone 2 next month.

Do you guys have a rough plan of how many milestones before the first beta or RC?
Best,Ismael

1/mo. until the first beta or RC :)
I'm not sure how many features/fixes martin is pushing for 2.10.  My guess is a push for something at ScalaDays based on past experience, but I'm not the one to ask about that.
- Josh

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Ismael Juma <ismael@juma.me.uk> wrote:

Hey Josh,

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Josh Suereth <joshua.suereth@gmail.com> wrote:

I apologize for not having a better feature list this time.   We'll have a much better one ready for milestone 2 next month.

Do you guys have a rough plan of how many milestones before the first beta or RC?
Best,Ismael

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Josh Suereth <joshua.suereth@gmail.com> wrote:

1/mo. until the first beta or RC :)

Fair enough. :)

I'm not sure how many features/fixes martin is pushing for 2.10.  My guess is a push for something at ScalaDays based on past experience, but I'm not the one to ask about that.

We'll find out soon enough.
Best,Ismael

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:46, Edmondo Porcu wrote:
> Where can I find informations about the faster inliner? :)

Truth is, the only place to get good information about all that stuff
is source code and commit logs. In some cases, there's also a SIP.
Actually, I think only String Interpolation has a SIP, among the new
features.

This is not a new Scala release, and the target are not common
developers. The *main* goal of milestones is to ensure that libraries,
tools, and, perhaps, very big users, can verify that no regressions
have been made, and that Scala progress is not going in a problematic
direction.

Now, I'm not a developer, just a user -- and a very unimportant one at
that. I do follow the developers mailing lists, I do read the commits,
and I like to help people who are learning Scala. So, if you'd like to
try out a work-in-progress for the next Scala version, please do so!
It's very fun, actually, and you *can* influence the language
development, even if in small ways. Just, please, let's avoid threads
about how work-in-progress is this work-in-progress, ok? :-)