Release new version?

[FeldrinH]

The cortex-m crates on crates.io seem to be quite outdated. For example the last release of cortex-m was over 2 years ago and includes the deprecated bare-metal critical section.

It would be nice to get a new release of the master branch at some point.

[jonathanpallant]

The contents of the main branch are a breaking change, and we don't want to release a breaking change right now. We're going to backport the non-breaking changes and do a new 0.7.x release as soon as someone has free time.

[FeldrinH]

When will you release the breaking changes then? It seems to me that the sooner it gets released the better. Easier to make changes while the ecosystem is younger.

[jonathanpallant]

TBD. A breaking change in this crate splits the ecosystem due to its implementation of critical-section for single-core CPUs, so it causes everyone a lot of pain and must be carefully managed.

[FeldrinH]

TBD. A breaking change in this crate splits the ecosystem due to its implementation of critical-section for single-core CPUs, so it causes everyone a lot of pain and must be carefully managed.

That's fair. It just feels like the current situation is worse. You know the breaking change has to come eventually but you don't know when so you can't plan for it and the longer you wait the more crates there are that depend on the old version and will suffer once the breaking change actually happens.