[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia 0.6

[Graham Inggs]

On 05/07/2017 06:47, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Without having any specific knowledge of the internals, I would guess
> that patching basically amounts to adding support for Unicode 10.

I have done this locally and Julia 0.4.7 still builds.  I'll push to git 
shortly.  I regenerated unicode_data.c until the tests passed.  It took 
two iterations.

On 06/07/2017 03:36, Peter Colberg wrote:
 > After a bit more pondering, this does not actually address your point
 > about the circular build dependency. Regardless of whether packages
 > depend on julia or not, those needed to build the documentation will
 > most likely have to be updated in lockstep with julia.
 >
 > So yes, it seems advisable splitting the documentation into a separate
 > source package to avoid a bootstrapping issue with new major releases.

After some pondering here, I think this might not actually be a problem.
Surely we can generate the documentation after building the new julia 
binary, and using the new julia binary?  In which case julia will not 
need to build-depend on julia.