Dear fellow developers,
after recent changes, the latest SQL (intendedly) does not compile with the stable MonetDB-4.3.16, anymore.
Moreover, we plan to have some "major" changes both on MonetDB and on SQL during the summer heading for the first "official" release MonetDB 4.4 in autumn.
Hence, Niels and I had the idea to make a "snapshot" or "intermediate stable" (pre-)release just before we start with major changes.
The proposal is to start new release candidate branches, both for MonetDB and SQL (named MonetDB_4-3-18 and SQL_2-0-18, respectively) sometime this week (i.e., before end of May), getting them, stable as soon as possible, and aim for a release date about mid June.
The current MonetDB code base seems to be doing quite well, hence I do not expect too much work, here, unless we plan to have some more new features (Peter: xtables, aggregates, ...?; Stefan: merged-union?) in the code.
I guess, the same holds for SQL, but I'm not that sure, there.
Are there any other features, that should be included in this "intermediate release"?
A new "stable" also means, that all add-ons that are currently tested with 4-3-16 need to be ported to 4-3-18 (i.e., XML, PathFinder (HEAD), pruning, misq, gis, acoi) --- which probably requires a careful check, that monetdb_config.h is included in the local *_config.h's, and that the latter one is the FIRST include file in EACH .c file...
Any other comments, complaints, suggestions, ...?
Open issues (all, mine, I'm afraid |-() are: - testing on AIX (sara, "batch mode"), - testing on medusa (in Tilburg), - testing on native WindowsXP + VS .NET (on Sjoerd's machine) - clean-up / re-implementation of TestTools
Stefan
ps: we could of course also postpone this action until after the ICDE deadline on July 2nd and condense it to at most one week ...