Julia 1.6 was released on 24 March 2021, but wasn’t declared LTS until Dec 2021 (previous LTS, 1.0, was LTS for just over 3 years). Should we go for 18 month LTS support as node.js? There has never been a promise for how long long-term support means for Julia (and I’m not even sure how desirable an…

Barring bad (thus far unseen) problems with the release, Julia 1.10 is very likely to become the new LTS once we’ve gotten a couple of point releases out for it. So far there’s a bit of a kerfuffle about artifact hash mismatches making 1.10.0 unusable for Windows users not using Developer Mode, but …

I also find it interesting that you are asking so much about the LTS when you said you do not use it. I live on the bleeding edge… once something hits RC or beta then I switch to that. I do not look back at or care about prior releases anymore. Is your concern that supporting an LTS slows developme…

[image] Tamas_Papp: Or make 1.11 the next LTS just because it has public? This does not looks unreasonable to me. But on the other hand, I never really understood the value of the LTS tags anyway.

My concern is the package developers, first, and not misleading LTS users. Already some developers feel the need to support 1.6, because it’s the LTS, and it’s not a huge burden, but it gets harder over time, why I want 1.6 LTS deemphasized or dead (it already is, but people may not realize it). I …

I’ve marked Stefan’s response above as the “answer” to this topic — that’s about the closest to an answer as is possible at this point. It’s not definitive because the decision of what version to tag the LTS is a consensus process amongst the committers and release managers that weighs many tradeof…

[image] Tamas_Papp: Or make 1.11 the next LTS just because it has public? Would it be possible to accelerate the release of Julia 1.11 by releasing it with only the public keyword as a new feature and delaying other features planned for Julia 1.11 to a later version? Thus, the LTS version cou…

[image] xiaoxi: Would it be possible to accelerate the release of Julia 1.11 by releasing it with only the public keyword as a new feature and delaying other features planned for Julia 1.11 to a later version? No. This is always a tension. See, e.g., what happened with v1.6 and v1.7 . And t…

One consideration about LTS and new features that I think is relevant is that you probably don’t want an LTS to “age” very quickly — meaning that it would be nice if the package ecosystem were likely to support the LTS for a while. But if there’s a killer feature in Julia version LTS+0.1 (the minor…

I see public as more than just a feature. If you have some old code like: a=0 b="hello" f(;a=a, b=b) it would just be old fashioned, but the way that I understand public it would actually be wrong if for example the package HTTP did not declare the request method as public in Julia 1.11. So if I w…

It’s worth noting that package downloads underrepresent the very sort of user that would use the LTS — they’d similarly be unlikely to upgrade packages (or add new ones). They’d surely have glacially frozen manifests that have long since been instantiated.

New Julia LTS? Are many using the current (Julia 1.6) LTS?

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goerz January 18, 2024, 5:27pm 64

Even though I like the new public, I’m not entirely sure why this is so urgent: What does the new "public" keyword actually do?

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New Julia LTS? Are many using the current (Julia 1.6) LTS?

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