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diff --git a/whats/cooking/2010/02/18.txt b/whats/cooking/2010/02/18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..01dc1f04e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2010/02/18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +To: erlang patches <[email protected]> +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-02-18) +X-dev-at: 64d4c5a1a59b00596dd196b1c204825828c246b9 + +This is the final What's cooking before the R13B04 release. + +I have updated the Stalled section with some more branches, +and added an "Action expected from" line to each, to make +it clear who is responsible for making the next step to +advance the topic. + +I will take this opportunity to thank everyone that have +sent us patches. There are currently in the dev branch +one or more commits from 32 persons from outside the +Erlang/OTP team (a few more patches have been included in +some way or another into the release without being visible +in the history in the git repository). I have not counted, +but I think we have never included so many pathes from +open-source contributors in any previous release. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* bg/erl_bif_types (hipe) (2010-02-13) 4 commits + + Add types for erts_debug:lock_counters/1 (6d2d8b9) + + Add types for os:timestamp/0 (3f2a3a5) + + Add types for erts_debug:dist_ext_to_term/2 (11d4aab) + + erl_bif_types: add 'http_bin' as a valid packet option (4df5137) + +* dgud/emacs-mode (tools) (2010-01-26) 2 commits + + Added the old style skeletons, and a variable to change. (2cbe853) + + Move code skeletons to a separate file. Use the updated skeletons from the Erlware Mode. (b4fd161) + +* jn/sasl-format_report (sasl) (2010-01-27) 1 commit + + Added sasl_report:format_report/3 to return a string rather than send an io (109a257) + +* kr/odbc-netinet (odbc) (2010-02-10) 1 commit + + Fix ODBC compilation error on FreeBSD by adding netinet/in.h to #include macros (5c6be09) + +* ks/cleanups (asn1, os_mon, parsetools, percept, runtime_tools, sasl, wx) (2010-02-13) 13 commits + + percept: Clean up as suggested by tidier (a8bf1fe) + + percept: Modernize types and specs (f2592e6) + + parsetools: Don't use 'try...of' when 'try' will do (c12397f) + + parsetools: Use %% for comments at the beginning of a line (152088b) + + parsetools: Replace lists:keysearch/3 with lists:keyfind/3 (b573c21) + + parsetools: Modernize types and specs (3117c77) + + parsetools: Replace TABs with spaces (08e2d74) + + runtime_tools: Modernize specs (2b451b0) + + sasl: Eliminate tuple used as fun (c394654) + + sasl: Add missing modules to app file (b8527e1) + + asn1: Clean up as suggested by tidier (37b274d) + + os_mon: Modernize types and specs (c40e8d0) +. +. +. + +* ks/hipe (dialyzer, hipe, syntax_tools, typer) (2010-02-16) 8 commits + + dialyzer: Fix system_limit exception in race analysis (abe48c2) + + syntax_tools: Add types and specs for most exported functions (8b7dd06) + + syntax_tools: Support the --enable-native-libs configure option (649d313) + + syntax_tools: Remove $Id$ annotations (b366554) + + dialyzer: New version for the R13B04 release (a9c8a24) + + hipe: Miscellaneous additions (cdd3a82) + + typer: New version for the R13B04 release (eab3576) + + Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit (63c1378) + +* tj/asn1_macro_prefix (asn1) (2010-02-04) 1 commit + + Add support for prefixing macro names generated by the compiler (9d247b1) + +* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2009-12-25) 4 commits + + New rb:filter/2 to filter reports by date (242c70e) + + New rb:filter/1 function to ease report filtering (e99ec8e) + + Modify rb:grep/1 to grep reports using the re module (501b923) + + Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (2356f4e) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* bg/compiler-bugs (otp) (2010-02-16) 1 commit + - bug: inlining a module causes an internal compiler error (f77e8aa) + +Reminder for a (low priority) bug to fix after the R13B04 release. + +* gl/jinterface-pom (jinterface, otp) (2010-02-15) 2 commits + - Exclude jinterface build artifact from git (37e9289) + - Add pom.xml for jinterface build (5405d48) + +* mh/ssh_channel-init-no-catch (ssh) (2010-01-25) 1 commit + - Remove pointless catch from ssh_channel:init/1. (bb7eaa5) + +* ra/include-public_key-in-ssh (ssh) (2010-01-20) 1 commit + - Added public_key among ssh applications. (3a0c2c5) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Stalled] + +* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit + - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9) + +The patch in itself is good. It solves the problem on Mac OS X +in the only way that seems possible. Unfortunately, our +test cases fail on Linux, and fixing it seems to require a +backward-incompatible change to the API of the odbc module or +ugly workarounds. The reviewer (Jakob Cederlund) will email +the details and suggest and/or implement a solution. + +Action expected from: OTP/Jakob Cederlund + +* bg/safer-local_to_univ (erts) (2010-02-11) 1 commit + - erl_time_sup.c: test for error return from mktime() (0f62f0b) + +We will not include this branch in R13B04 for two reasons: + + o We are not 100% sure that this change is harmless on all + platforms in all timezones. + o We have an idea how the underlying problem can be fixed in + the calendar module (only) and I plan to try it out after the + release. We will keep this branch in pu as a reminder. + +Action expected from: Björn Gustavsson + +* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit + - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759) + +I should have put this into the stalled state earlier. + +Since our long-term goal is to migrate from gs towards wx, +maintaining the old gs applications has a low priority for +the Erlang/OTP team. Therefore, we will accept patches that +seem sound, but we are unlikely to spend much of our own time +fixing bugs. + +The author of this topic branch has found the real reason for +the problem, but uncovered additional issues. + +Action expected from: The topic author - to decide whether to +include the topic branch (which is a workaround, but does eliminate +the crash) or to wait for a better fix from himself or someone else +with an interest to advance the topic. + +* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-02-14) 3 commits + - squash! eliminate dialyzer warning (434e2ca) + - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d) + - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437) + +Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer +review of the implementation. + +Action expected from: Björn Gustavsson (the reviewer) + +* kr/gs-browser (gs) (2010-02-10) 1 commit + - Change lib/gs/src/tool_utils.erl to select multiple browsers other than Netscape (802d159) + +This topic branch introduces a new call to the deprecated regexp module. + +Action expected from: Topic author or anyone else with an interest to +advance the topic + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* bd/mnesia-activity-subscription (mnesia) (2010-02-12) 1 commit + - Add mnesia activity subscription message (a564dd3) + +* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-01-31) 4 commits + - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (0e3ab3e) + - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (c9fc04b) + - Disable native code if on_load is used (bd4fe28) + - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (8aadc4c) + +This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test +cases and is never intended to graduate. + +* kl/extensibility-implied (asn1) (2010-02-05) 3 commits + - Updated ticket reference (46d01f9) + - Add support for EXTENSIBILITY IMPLIED, SET/SEQ OF NamedType (185187c) + - Updated version number for the next version of ASN1 (6f855f3) + +* ks/cleanups-after-r13b04 (debugger, docbuilder, gs, kernel, stdlib) (2010-02-07) 8 commits + - debugger: Clean up as suggested by tidier (3ee6718) + - docbuilder: Clean up as suggested by tidier (e9ddf18) + - gs: Clean up as suggested by tidier (b72b682) + - Take out type declarations from file.hrl. (bbaee4c) + - stdlib: Use fun object instead of {M,F} tuple (4e68a89) + - ets: Cleanup as suggested by tidier (83b3cad) + - kernel: Add types and specs + cleanup (649066e) + - kernel: Clean up as suggested by tidier (70439b9) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* kr/sasl-typo-fix (sasl) (2010-02-10) 1 commit + . sasl: Fix typo (b798e9b) + +Duplicate of commit 2356f4e in va/rb-improvements. + |