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Re: GNU Parallel 20150822 ('Hans Vibeke') released
From: |
Shlomi Fish |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Parallel 20150822 ('Hans Vibeke') released |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:39:28 +0300 |
Hi Hans,
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:57:02 +0200
Hans Schou <chlor@schou.dk> wrote:
> 2015-08-23 13:11 GMT+02:00 Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>:
>
> > Hi Ole,
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 11:55:49 +0200
> > Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > GNU Parallel 20150822 ('Hans Vibeke') has been released. It is
> > > available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/
> > >
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but who or what is "Hans Vibeke"? Neither
> >
>
> I am Hans.
>
> Every 22th of the month Ole Tange releases a new version of GNU Parallel.
> Each release has a name of an event which has just happen within this
> month. You can read more about it in this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2014-02/msg00010.html
>
> It happens so that I have been married to Vibeke for 12½ years as of
> 2015-08-22 which also is the release date of GNU Parallel. Ole was invited
> to the party, and named it after that. BTW in Denmark we call 12½ years of
> wedding "copper wedding".
I see. Congratulations and Mazal Tov!
>
> Releases can not have special characters like '&' because of Twitter etc,
> so the release name was not "Hans & Vibeke 12½ years", which would be more
> informative.
>
I'm pretty sure Twitter can handle "&" and "½" and any other Unicode character
you throw at it fine. It has a character limit, though.
> > Did I miss anything?
> >
>
> Yes, the release/wedding party ;-)
>
:-).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> ./hans
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