On Sun 29 Mar 2015 15:06, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> For these reasons, I decided against recommending those undocumented
>> initialization functions.  Instead, I suggested that David initialize
>> binary ports by loading (ice-9 binary-ports):
>>
>>   (void) scm_c_resolve_module ("ice-9 binary-ports");
>
> That sounds like the best option, indeed.
>
>> For Guile 2.0.12, I suggest that we unconditionally do the equivalent of
>> 'scm_init_bytevectors' and 'scm_init_r6rs_ports' during Guile
>> initialization, and make those functions into deprecated no-ops.
>
> Agreed, that’s what I was going to suggest.
>
> That these init functions are not marked as internal is really an
> oversight.
>
> I wouldn’t be against simply making them SCM_INTERNAL in 2.0.12, but
> making them public + deprecated as you suggest is even better.

WDYT about something like this?