From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP). Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:39:09 -0700 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CF3DCDD.D0CB1662@pacbell.net> References: <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <877klouny2.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <3CF3D274.978637CD@pacbell.net> <87sn4ct6tj.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022614893 18616 127.0.0.1 (28 May 2002 19:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 19:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Cmqb-0004q9-00 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 21:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Cmr6-00034v-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 15:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10] helo=svldns02.veritas.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17CmoR-0002lc-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 15:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from megami.veritas.com (south.veritas.com [10.182.128.167]) by svldns02.veritas.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g4SJW8c21793; Tue, 28 May 2002 12:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pacbell.net (ellen.veritas.com[10.180.88.137]) by megami.veritas.com (1770 bytes) via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 12:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #15 built 2001-Aug-30) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Marius Vollmer Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:670 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?" _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel