From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@pacbell.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP).
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:39:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CF3DCDD.D0CB1662@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sn4ct6tj.fsf@zagadka.ping.de
Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Without bignums, fixnums would overflow into floats. ...
> Assuming that our current bignum code is correct,
> it wouldn't need much maintainance itself.
Works for me. :-)
> > > What I'm trying to say is that we should not make
> > > ourselves a lot of work to keep the fall back be efficient.
> >
> > Fallback isn't the issue. You're talking about a new
> > library with new usage restrictions. Think: new name, too.
>
> Yep, this occured to me... but which one should be plain "libguile"?
The one without new restrictions.
> The one with GMP or the one without? Also, we already have API
> variants: with or without threads, with or without heavy-weight
> debugging support. Maybe we should give distinct names to them also?
If there are usage constraints, yes. Otherwise, it's a config
issue. "Does the library support function X?" is a fundamentally
different question than, "Am I allowed to link with the library at all?"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-28 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-09 20:17 Project: a good floating point printer/reader Marius Vollmer
2002-05-13 21:01 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-15 18:30 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-16 15:35 ` The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP) Rob Browning
2002-05-16 16:44 ` Greg Troxel
2002-05-16 17:01 ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-16 17:12 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-21 19:55 ` Carl R. Witty
2002-05-21 23:44 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 17:21 ` Jeff Read
2002-05-16 17:22 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 20:40 ` Jeff Read
2002-05-16 23:17 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 23:35 ` Jeff Read
2002-05-17 0:02 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-28 18:56 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 18:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 18:54 ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-28 19:23 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:39 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2002-05-28 19:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 20:16 ` Bruce Korb
2002-06-01 16:01 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:02 ` Rob Browning
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