Release to match Juno's Breakpoint Release?

[ChrisRackauckas]

Juno is starting an ecosystem release which will enable the breakpoint GUI today. However, the ability to remove breakpoints requires https://github.com/Keno/Gallium.jl/pull/168 . I was wondering if a Gallium.jl release could follow as well since that would help the user experience.

However, I do see that Gallium is not building on master. Is that due to some deps needing tags as well, or a more fundamental problem?

Edit for clarity: I mean Gallium.jl's master branch is not building on Julia v0.5 according to Travis:

https://travis-ci.org/Keno/Gallium.jl/jobs/198707437

[josefsachsconning]

As far as I know, Gallium has not worked with the master branch of Julia since #153 on September 14.

[ChrisRackauckas]

Not talking about master branch of Julia. Julia v0.5 is fine.

[timholy]

Julia 0.6 has changed some of the fundamental types used for code introspection, so Gallium+dependents will need a big overhaul to support 0.6. I can imagine @Keno wants to wait until 0.6 is settling down (it's still not in feature freeze, seemingly).

[ChrisRackauckas]

Julia 0.6 has changed some of the fundamental types used for code introspection, so Gallium+dependents will need a big overhaul to support 0.6. I can imagine @Keno wants to wait until 0.6 is settling down (it's still not in feature freeze, seemingly).

But do they not currently support v0.5? v0.6 is orthogonal to this issue.

[timholy]

Gallium is working for me on 0.5, though I have master checked out on many of the dependents.

[ChrisRackauckas]

Gallium is working for me on 0.5, though I have master checked out on many of the dependents.

Okay, that's good to hear. So it's just a matter of tagging a bunch of things? For reference, this is what merged today:

https://github.com/JunoLab/atom-julia-client/pull/275#issuecomment-279498267

which will enable the breakpoint API, and these tags:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl/pull/7945 https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl/pull/7946

(along with release stuff for the Atom package manager) will enable it. Gallium.jl's master is currently required for the breakpoints to be unset because of #168, so although this will release, it won't have a great user experience because the breakpoints will seemingly "get stuck". Since Gallium master is currently working (with a few tags on dependencies), what I am proposing is at least one last "before 0.6" release so that way this is all complete and Juno + debugger will at least work well until v0.6.

Sorry if I wasn't explaining myself well earlier.

[timholy]

That's exciting news! Would indeed be great to get a new set of tags. @Keno?

[Keno]

Yes, I'm fine with a new set of tags, but as you point out 0.6 will require a massive refactor, so I'm not planning to update Gallium for 0.5 going forward.

[timholy]

Keno, if you've not used it before, PkgDev.freeable() can use used to print out a list of the gap (in number of commits) between the current master and the last tagged version. It's handy for quickly coming up with the list of packages that need tagging. For example:

julia> f = PkgDev.freeable()
Packages with a gap between HEAD and the most recent tag:
ASTInterpreter: 6
AbstractTrees: 13
AxisArrays: 3
COFF: 2
DWARF: 3
ELF: 2
FixedPointNumbers: 2
GLFW: 2
Gallium: 21
Gtk: 36
ImageAxes: 1
ImageFiltering: 9
ImageMagick: 1
ImageQuilting: 11
Immerse: 2
JuliaParser: 15
MachO: 3
ObjFileBase: 1
OffsetArrays: 1
Optim: -159
PkgDev: -13
Plots: 39
StructIO: 4
TerminalUI: 2
Unitful: 57
VT100: 10
VideoIO: 5

(The ones with a - mean I've got a branch checked out that is lacking a lot of stuff that's in current releases.)