New release for haxe 3.2?

[andyli]

As title. IIRC there are some haxe features introduced between 3.1.3 and 3.2.0 require a new version of neko.

[ConstNW]

does #31 complete already?

[ncannasse]

The unicode part is sadly not complete/tested, but bytes thing is ok. However it requires compiling with -D neko_v21 (for neko 2.1) to activate

[andyli]

Can we postpone the unicode part to neko 2.2 and get 2.1 out first for Haxe 3.2.0?

[andyli]

No?
Without an official release it would be hard to update the homebrew/chocolatey/ubuntu ppa packages.

[ncannasse]

I wish I had time to make a release :) I'm very very busy atm, maybe @Simn can help?

[Simn]

I wouldn't even know where to start.

[andyli]

@ncannasse I hope you have time to do a release soon. There are critical bugs (e.g. #39) fixed but the fix has never released.

I will go ahead and try to update the debian neko package. If there no serious problem, we can make a neko 2.1 release and I can submit it to debian.
A new release should also help @ppenzin's work on #84, in the sense that he can package the version that contains all his recently merged commits.

[thomasuster]

I would love to try neko out again now that the code limit was raised, so if anyone could help out @ncannasse I'd be grateful.

[ppenzin]

It is always better to use a release than just a commit (even though that might work too), so it would probably help me submit the port.

Let me know if I can help with speeding things up.

[ncannasse]

I did all the necessary steps last week end, now I only have to build a release. I still would like to package a mod_neko24 for Apache 2.4 since it's not compatible with Apache 2.2

[ppenzin]

Ping.

Anything I can do to help? Does anyone have an estimate when will the
new release go out?

On 09/22/15 05:38, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

I did all the necessary steps last week end, now I only have to build
a release. I still would like to package a mod_neko24 for Apache 2.4
since it's not compatible with Apache 2.2

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[ibilon]

In #112 @Simn said a new version would be released along haxe 3.3,
any estimation for when that'll be?

Because #86 isn't released some people on linux are loosing haxelib after a reboot or when cron launches a preload/strip http://community.openfl.org/t/roblem-with-install-haxe-sh-on-linux-mint-17-3-rosa/7110/

[Simn]

We need a neko release before we can make the haxe-3.3.0-rc1 release.

[ncannasse]

@pperidont are you all green with your SSL contributions to neko? I wouldn't want to have to update the release :)

[pperidont]

There's one last thing I would like to fix before a final release, it's thread safety on all platforms.
It will be useful for multithreads servers using SSL (Tora for example).

On Mac/Linux, it's simple, mbedTLS provides an implementation using pthread. It only requires some modifications in mbedTLS config.h. You can use this script to download, compile and install the lib before compiling neko :

wget https://tls.mbed.org/download/mbedtls-2.2.1-apache.tgz
tar xzf mbedtls-2.2.1-apache.tgz
cd mbedtls-2.2.1
sed -i "s/\/\/#define MBEDTLS_THREADING_PTHREAD/#define MBEDTLS_THREADING_PTHREAD/; s/\/\/#define MBEDTLS_THREADING_C/#define MBEDTLS_THREADING_C/; s/#define MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_SSL3/\/\/#define MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_SSL3/" include/mbedtls/config.h
SHARED=1 make lib
sudo make install

On Windows, we need a mbedTLS.lib with thread safety implemented. I will try to do that.

[andyli]

@pperidont Do you know whether the mbedtls Debian package will just work? It's also available on Ubuntu 16.04, which is currently in beta 2.

[pperidont]

@andyli The Debian package seems OK according to 01_config.patch. I think we can use it with dynamic linking for Debian/Ubuntu packages when it's available.

On Mac, the brew package did not define the required MBEDTLS_THREADING_C and MBEDTLS_THREADING_PTHREAD : https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/mbedtls.rb

[zaxebo1]

@pperidont : humbly, how much time it may take for you to implement or submit your pull request for the proposed patches/fixes ?
Actually, we are eagerly waiting for the new release for packaging with OSes. Last package(bundled in the Os repositories) is still 3 years old release of nekovm 2.0 ( https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/neko/releases )

[Simn]

Up?

[andyli]

Remaining tasks:

• nekoboot: search neko vm in cwd, $loader.path, and PATH in order #125
• bump version number (to 2.1?)
• prepare changelog
• actually make the release (upload binary and source archives, update website etc.)

@ncannasse Do you want me to handle those, or will you take care of them?

[ncannasse]

Please do, I don't have much time for it atm

[andyli]

Done. I will update the packages in #127.