From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Anton Vidovic" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Manual bug, old manuals. Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20110325195252.302150@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301091023 13233 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 22:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:10:23 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 23:10:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3FD1-0007Oi-Ip for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:10:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3FD0-0001Jb-Sm for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51594 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3D49-0002dp-Dx for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3D46-0007dI-Sp for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:55669) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3D46-0007cr-HN for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 30305 invoked by uid 0); 25 Mar 2011 19:52:55 -0000 Original-Received: from 84.61.241.110 by www059.gmx.net with HTTP; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:52:52 +0100 (CET) X-Authenticated: #4969600 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18UAEkWg1oUcGxUfzt+GbJx3c8z48t46EftxsrWg9 ceYISSfx9K7yWehBE6Xplosx0arZjJNjGM6g== X-GMX-UID: o8S/eWU+TXsuUPOwKmQ5az1CRzdyMgOT X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:10:05 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5375 Archived-At: Hello Guilers, In the 2.0 manual, probably in 1.8 and 1.6 also, in section 2.4 "Writing guile extensions", the function "scm_num2dbl" is used in the code example. This function was, as I could find out, deprecated in 1.4 and removed in 1.6. Second, I would ask you to put back the 1.8 manual on http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs.html. I can not upgrade to 2.0 at work, and would like to be able to quickly look things up for 1.8 (and 1.6) if I need them. Also I would ask you to also put back the link to the old guile tutorial, before it was rewritten to use gnuplot. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-tut/tutorial.html gnuplot is not a part of the gnu project, and it is not GPL. It's licence is also bordering on non-free, since distribution of modified versions is not permitted, modifications can only be distributed as separate patches. I think that it is not OK for a core gnu project to rely on non-GNU, non-GPL and borderline non-free software for a beginners tutorial, no matter how convenient gnuplot might be. The last point, Mike Gran has recently anounced on the dev list that he will remove his "Guile book", which is currently linked on http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs.html Could you please copy the book and make it available directly on the Guile website, for future references? I somehow have the feeling that more and more of the older (outdated) Guile documentation is being removed from the web completely, and I think this is bad, especially the removal of the old tutorial. Anton -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone