From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sergey Poznyakoff Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: User perception on backward compatibility Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:57:00 +0200 Organization: GNU.org.ua Message-ID: <20100121185700.30069@Pirx.gnu.org.ua> References: <87y6jrzq10.fsf@gnu.org> <77066.87604.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264093817 22264 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2010 17:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: "Mike Gran" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 18:10:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NY0Xp-0002S8-5n for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:10:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Pu-0007Qo-Q2 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Mh-0006sP-2l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:58:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Mb-0006s1-0w for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50124 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NY0Ma-0006ry-UF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:12585) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NY0LO-0000jf-M5; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from pirx.gnu.org.ua ([213.130.31.41]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NY0LB-000148-36; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:57:05 -0500 X-Mailutils-Message-Id: o0LGv0og030072 Original-Received: from Pirx.gnu.org.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Pirx.gnu.org.ua with ESMTP id o0LGv0og030072; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:57:00 +0200 Original-Received: (from gray@localhost) by Pirx.gnu.org.ua (8.14.3/8.12.10/Submit) id o0LGv02t030071; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:57:00 +0200 In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:09:39 -0800 (PST) <77066.87604.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; GNU Mailutils 2.1; GNU Emacs 22.1.1 X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9907 Archived-At: Mike Gran ha escrit: > Maybe we need a gnulib-like project for guile ;-) Oh, no. That'd be an overkill, really :^) But retaining the old interfaces for at least a couple of revisions, since introduction of the new ones, will be very helpful (the current practice of issuing deprecation warnings is quite OK). Regards, Sergey