Preparing for v0.6

[tlnagy]

What needs to be updated to get Gadfly working on Julia v0.6

Packages that need updates

• Update Colors stack (Fix 0.6 abstract type declaration depwarn JuliaGraphics/Colors.jl#275, Support more julia 0.6 prereleases with a more primitive datatype_name JuliaGraphics/ColorTypes.jl#73, etc)
• Update Compose.jl (finish port to julia 0.6 Compose.jl#240)
• Update Lazy.jl (switch to using new Base.Iterators module on v0.6 MikeInnes/Lazy.jl#55)
• Update Gadfly proper (WIP: update for julia 0.6 #973)
• Update Showoff.jl (switch to using new Base.Iterators module on v0.6 JuliaGraphics/Showoff.jl#1)
• Update Measures.jl (various fixes for 0.6 JuliaGraphics/Measures.jl#12)
• Update Hexagons.jl
• Update RData.jl (fixed in https://github.com/JuliaStats/RData.jl/releases/tag/v0.1.0)

Packages that need to be tagged

• Compose.jl
• Gadfly.jl
• Hexagons.jl
• Showoff.jl
• Measures.jl
• Loess.jl

[tlnagy]

Recent builds are completely broken now on master so this is high priority for the julia v0.6 release.

[tlnagy]

Actually, the current breakage looks to be caused by JuliaStats/DataArrays.jl#226.

[bjarthur]

should do Measure.jl as well

[bjarthur]

it's time to do Gadfly proper. i'm anxious to see if the time-to-first plot will improve with julia 0.6. does anyone want to take a stab at it? or shall i??

[lobingera]

Please do. (just for the record: there are too many issues out there with reports on v0.6 compiler/precompiler performance, that i'd expect it's even slower...)

[tlnagy]

Please go ahead. I'll be happy to review the PR! I appreciate your help on this.

[bjarthur]

maybe tag Loess too?

[tlnagy]

Loess is tagged and I'm waiting for a merge: JuliaLang/METADATA.jl#8804

[bjarthur]

closed by #973