tagging 0.7

[bjarthur]

would be good to tag a new release which fixes the dataframes problem. are there any PRs we should merge before hand?

@Mattriks since #1118 introduces a breaking change, would be good to do that now as otherwise we'd have to wait awhile.

@non-Jedi what is your time frame for #1105 ?

i've been diligently working on #1116, but that is something that could wait.

[non-Jedi]

backburner for me right now. Hope to get to it some time after May 10.

[tlnagy]

Lets leave this open for 24 hours and see if @Mattriks wants to get #1118 ready for this release. We should try and get these DataFrames fixes out ASAP.

[Mattriks]

There are two issues to do with IndirectArrays described in #1130, so those 2 things work in Gadfly 0.6.5 but not on master. Is there a plan to fix them?

Getting #1118 release-ready should be possible, I'll try to do it within a week.

[tlnagy]

I've been using master for the past couple weeks and it's performed well for me. I think that we need to tag and push it out because Gadfly is interfering with the rest of the dataframes ecosystem. We'll have to accept the regression on #1130 until @andreasnoack has a chance to look into it.

[bjarthur]

agreed. specifically, see #1144.

@andreasnoack please let us know your timeframe so we can decide whether to tag now or wait. we appreciate all you work on the dataframes issue!

[bjarthur]

i'm inclined to tag this weekend unless someone convinces me it's a bad idea.

[EDIT: because there were two more gripes recently on slack about the dataframes incompatibility).

[aviks]

I would urge a tag, even with some regressions, as soon as possible. The dependence of Gadfly on old DataFrames has unfortunately caused a huge split, with many strange dependencies.

Did you know for example, that if you install Gadfly, you cannot now install a new version of ZMQ? (The reasons are arcane, and honestly not the Gadfly developers problem, just an unfortunate side effect -- but still something that is very painful for many users).

[bjarthur]

tagging now

[bjarthur]

JuliaLang/METADATA.jl#14746

[KristofferC]

Merged.

[aviks]

Thanks!

[bjarthur]

close by JuliaLang/METADATA.jl#14746