code review 1354041: release.2010-05-27

release.2010-05-27

[adg, 2010-05-27 23:23:57]

Hello r, rsc (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

I'd like you to review this change.

[r2, 2010-05-27 23:33:48]

LGTM

maybe summarize the renamings in compress.

-rob

On May 27, 2010, at 4:23 PM, adg@golang.org wrote:

> Reviewers: r, rsc,
>
> Message:
> Hello r, rsc (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),
>
> I'd like you to review this change.
>
>
> Description:
> release.2010-05-27
>
> Please review this at http://codereview.appspot.com/1354041/show
>
> Affected files:
>  M .hgtags
>  M doc/devel/release.html
>
>
> Index: .hgtags
> ===================================================================
> --- a/.hgtags
> +++ b/.hgtags
> @@ -19,4 +19,3 @@
> f98f784927abc56a61501eba0cf225966f2b0142 release.2010-04-13
> 6cc6c0d85fc3234fc0a5ec0a8777aa9d59d05ae8 release.2010-04-27
> 17ded5ad443b41ac05924864798f1bd8750da344 release.2010-05-04
> -17ded5ad443b41ac05924864798f1bd8750da344 release
> Index: doc/devel/release.html
> ===================================================================
> --- a/doc/devel/release.html
> +++ b/doc/devel/release.html
> @@ -5,6 +5,70 @@
> <p>This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go.
> For full details, see the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go/source/list 
> ">Mercurial change log</a>.</p>
>
> +<h3 id="2010-05-27">2010-05-27</h3>
> +
> +<pre>
> +A sizeable release, including standard library improvements and a  
> slew of
> +compiler bug fixes. The three-week interval was largely caused by  
> the team
> +preparing for Google I/O.
> +
> +* big: add Rat type (thanks Evan Shaw),
> +        new features, much performance tuning, cleanups, and more  
> tests.
> +* bignum: deprecate by moving into exp directory.
> +* build: allow MAKEFLAGS to be set outside the build scripts  
> (thanks Christopher Wedgwood).
> +* bytes: add Trim, TrimLeft, TrimRight, and generic functions  
> (thanks Michael Hoisie).
> +* cgo: fix to permit cgo callbacks from init code.
> +* cmath: update range of Phase and Polar due to signed zero (thanks  
> Charles L. Dorian).
> +* codereview: work better with mq (thanks Peter Williams).
> +* compress: renamings (http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=5190b0c2de

> ).
> +* exp/draw/x11: respect $XAUTHORITY,
> +        treat $DISPLAY the same way x-go-bindings does.
> +* exp/draw: fast path for glyph images, other optimizations,
> +        fix Rectangle.Canon (thanks Roger Peppe).
> +* fmt: Scan, Scanln: Start of a simple scanning API in the fmt  
> package,
> +        fix Printf crash when given an extra nil argument (thanks  
> Roger Peppe).
> +* gc: better error when computing remainder of non-int (thanks Evan  
> Shaw),
> +        disallow middot in Go programs,
> +        distinguish array, slice literal in error messages,
> +        fix shift/reduce conflict in go.y export syntax,
> +        fix unsafe.Sizeof on ideal constants,
> +        handle use of builtin function outside function call,
> +        many other bug fixes.
> +* gob: add support for maps,
> +        add test for indirect maps, slices, arrays.
> +* godoc: collect package comments from all package files.
> +* gofmt: don't lose mandatory semicolons,
> +        exclude test w/ illegal syntax from test cases,
> +        fix printing of labels.
> +* http: prevent crash if remote server is not responding with  
> "HTTP/".
> +* json: accept escaped slash in string scanner (thanks Michael  
> Hoisie),
> +        fix array -> non-array decoding.
> +* libmach: skip __nl_symbol_ptr section on OS X.
> +* math: amd64 versions of Fdim, Fmax, Fmin,
> +        signed zero Sqrt special case (thanks Charles L. Dorian).
> +* misc/kate: convert isn't a built in function (thanks Evan Shaw).
> +* net: implement BindToDevice,
> +        implement raw sockets (thanks Christopher Wedgwood).
> +* netFD: fix race between Close and Read/Write (thanks Michael  
> Hoisie).
> +* os: add Chtimes function (thanks Brad Fitzpatrick).
> +* pkg/Makefile: add netchan to standard package list.
> +* runtime: GOMAXPROCS returns previous value,
> +        allow large map values,
> +        avoid allocation for fixed strings,
> +        correct tracebacks for nascent goroutines, even closures,
> +        free old hashmap pieces during resizing.
> +* spec: added imaginary literal to semicolon rules (was missing),
> +        fix and clarify syntax of conversions,
> +        simplify section on channel types,
> +        other minor tweaks.
> +* strconv: Btoui64 optimizations (thanks Kyle Consalus).
> +* strings: use copy instead of for loop in Map (thanks Kyle  
> Consalus).
> +* syscall: implement BindToDevice (thanks Christopher Wedgwood),
> +        add Utimes on Darwin/FreeBSD, add Futimes everywhere,
> +        regenerate syscalls for some platforms.
> +* template: regularize name lookups of interfaces, pointers, and  
> methods. <pre>
> +</pre>
> +
> <h3 id="2010-05-04">2010-05-04</h3>
>
> <pre>
>
>

[adg, 2010-05-27 23:41:06]

Hello r, rsc (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

Please take another look.

[r, 2010-05-27 23:43:50]

LGTM

http://codereview.appspot.com/1354041/diff/7001/8002
File doc/devel/release.html (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/1354041/diff/7001/8002#newcode73
doc/devel/release.html:73: * template: regularize name lookups of interfaces,
pointers, and methods. <pre>
what's this vacuous pre?

[adg, 2010-05-27 23:50:35]

*** Submitted as http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=a85ad0a64015 ***

release.2010-05-27

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