From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: deprecated features Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:35:44 -0800 Organization: Free Software Foundation Message-ID: <45B69BD0.4020206@gnu.org> References: <871wlprck9.fsf@chbouib.org> <45B4C7A0.5020302@xs4all.nl> <87tzyiwzwv.fsf@zip.com.au> <45B55C06.2000603@xs4all.nl> <877ivev9ju.fsf@zip.com.au> <45B562E4.4000105@xs4all.nl> <45B620B7.804@gnu.org> <45B695F3.1090604@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: bkorb@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169598152 16627 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2007 00:22:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 24 01:22:30 2007 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 1H9VuG-0004yT-6B for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:22:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9VuF-0002Xu-J1 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9VuB-0002Xp-Pe for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9VuB-0002XO-43 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9VuA-0002XL-VV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:22:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.115.20.71] (helo=flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H9VuA-0006hL-Ib for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:22:22 -0500 X-ORBL: [75.2.146.68] Original-Received: from [10.0.0.3] (adsl-75-2-146-68.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [75.2.146.68]) by flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com (8.13.8 out.dk.spool/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0O0MOJu030959; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:22:24 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) Original-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl In-Reply-To: <45B695F3.1090604@xs4all.nl> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:6481 Archived-At: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Well, as long as we keep 'supporting' the 1.4 interfaces, there is little > incentive for developers to upgrade to the 1.6 or 1.8 API. Let me be clear about this: it is (most likely) not the developers. It is my clients. Some of them upgrade to bleeding edge Guile and the obsoleted interfaces choke my program. I update the interfaces and somebody running on a platform still on Guile 1.4 complains that it chokes and dies on their system. I could, of course, incorporate the Guile library into my project, but I've determined that that is way, way, way over the top. If the interfaces are not stable enough for me to readily be able to support the current active platforms, then it is changing too quickly. As it is, I have a long collection of interface macros that wrap around Guile interfaces. Maintaining that isn't fun. :( [even less fun is the scm_c_eval_string_from_file_line() thing, the subject of posts in the past...] WRT the BSD distro: It's been a couple of years since I encountered the issue. I don't actively track it. A friend at UofU lets me play on some of his build platforms, so I'll try to remember to check next time I log in there. I'm certain it is pretty old. Cheers - Bruce _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel