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Open Dylan compiler and IDE
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opendylan2019 README #1240

Open zbyszek2019 opened 5 years ago

zbyszek2019 commented 5 years ago

README talks about opendylan2014 in some places (e.g. directory paths :-)

ZJ

timClicks commented 5 years ago

It's unfortunate that things like that happen during releases. FWIW the compiler thinks that it's 2019:

// from ./sources/lib/release-info/common-info.dylan
define constant $release-version            = "2019.1";
cgay commented 5 years ago

For the record we're talking about https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/build/packages/unix/README here. I guess there's no point fixing this until the next release though.

Note that the release checklist does mention updating that file, so this is "just" human error. Would be great to automate this a bit...

housel commented 5 years ago

In particular it would be nice if we could generate the README that gets included in the package from https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/README.rst

(I tried to investigate this but wasn't immediately able to find a recipe for doing single-file reStructuredText to plain text conversion.)

fraya commented 5 years ago

(I tried to investigate this but wasn't immediately able to find a recipe for doing single-file reStructuredText to plain text conversion.)

Not sure if this helps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1192632/how-to-convert-restructuredtext-to-plain-text

cgay commented 5 years ago

It seems to me these days the README need not be anything more than "welcome, and installation instructions are at https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/v2019.1.0/README.rst". (Note the URL is pegged to the specific release.) Is there a reasonable scenario where the user doesn't have network access anymore, presumably after just having downloaded the release?

(Obviously the README.rst would have to change a little.)