Re: Open Dylan 2013.1 released

I posted about this in a couple of places:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024888
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1i235m/open_dylan_20131_released/
http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1i21vd/open_dylan_20131_released/
http://www.reddit.com/r/dylanlang/comments/1i21w4/open_dylan_20131_released/
https://lobste.rs/s/w0oxpq/open_dylan_2013_1_released

Carl tweeted about it:

https://twitter.com/DylanLanguage/status/355167501866373123

So, we got pretty good visibility for this release and the comment threads
were even pretty positive. :)

 - Bruce



On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Dear Dylan Hackers,
>
> It is a pleasure for us to announce a new release of Open Dylan.
>
> We have extensive release notes [1], but this release has been about
> iterative improvement rather than major changes.
>
> * A deadlock when using threads on x86-linux has been addressed.
> * A crash when using threads on x86-linux has also been addressed.
> * A crash from memory corruption on Mac OS X has been fixed.
> * Some errors in how the Windows Registry was used have been corrected.
> * There have been significant improvements to the documentation.
> * A licensing issue with an unacknowledged copyright has been corrected.
>
> Please report problems that you have in our issue tracker,
> https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/issues.
>
> You can get it from our website, http://opendylan.org/download/.
> On Windows there is an installer, on UNIX systems unpack into ``/opt``.
> On 64 bit Linux, you will need to have the Boehm GC installed for our
> executables to run. (Ubuntu: ``apt-get install libgc``)
>
> Also, remember that this weekend, July 13-14 is our hack-a-thon [2] and we
> hope that you'll consider participating. You may also sign up for the
> hack-a-thon at our Google Plus event page [3].
>
> Good luck and happy Dylan hacking!
>
>  - Bruce
>
> [1] http://opendylan.org/documentation/release-notes/2013.1.html
> [2] http://opendylan.org/news/2013/06/30/dylan-hack-a-thon.html
> [3] https://plus.google.com/events/cuj0dbm59r9heuf4pqm5qj9u0uc
>

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