Please ensure enough releases/tags

[triska]

If possible, please ensure that releases/tags are frequent enough so that Prolog programmers who install based on releases benefit from new features and improvements within a reasonable time span.

Currently, this is not so much of an issue, because many are compiling and installing Scryer Prolog directly from source. However, what about the Docker-based install thanks to @panasenco, do releases play a role in updating it? And even if the Docker image is updated independent of releases, the issue is now becoming more pressing since Scryer Prolog is already being made available as package for other distribution channels that depend on explicit release tags.

Specifically, there is now ongoing work to make Scryer Prolog available as a package for Void Linux:

void-linux/void-packages#23821

Thank you a lot @mkohlhaas!

A surge of interest in Scryer Prolog from students and instructors is to be expected every start of a semester, and it would be nice to have a recent release of Scryer Prolog available in all distribution channels on a regular basis to distribute the latest changes.

In particular, researchers from Spain, Germany and the UK have already expressed interest in using Scryer Prolog in their classes, and making a new release before the semester starts in these countries would allow for instance the Void Linux package and Docker install to catch up in time.

[mkohlhaas]

Hi Markus,

updating is not the issue but getting the package approved. I keep trying.

[triska]

Scryer Prolog is now available in Void Linux (void-linux/void-packages#23821)!

Thank you a lot @mkohlhaas!

Time to celebrate the first official Scryer package for a distribution!

[mkohlhaas]

Scryer-prolog version on Github is 0.8.123, on crates.io it is 0.8.125. I think we should keep it in sync. Thanks.

[triska]

Yes absolutely, hence this issue: Please create enough tags (and push them with git push --tags) so that packages that build from Github are reasonably up to date!

As it stands, the latest Github "release"/tag (0.8.123) lacks many very nice features and improvements that have since become available.

[step21]

Hi Markus,

updating is not the issue but getting the package approved. I keep trying.

Where does it have to get approved? On crates.io?

[natrys]

I would like to bump the Void package, but 0.8.127 is failing to build with their toolchain because of an issue in dependency. Perhaps a new release with updated dependencies is in order.

[triska]

I think this is mostly resolved with the newly released 0.9.1: It has all features that are needed for a sensible Prolog course, and suffices for a great number of applications. Therefore, I am closing this issue.