Re: RFD: drop the GH interface.

[Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courte`s wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
>> Do we have a consensus?
> 
> Yes, fine by me, but no rush.  ;-)

 From a Guile-user and not developer perspective, the sequence needs to be:
1. the most retrograde platform must have all the GH capabilities in
    the SCM interfaces for their releases.  It seems to take quite a few
    years for BSD to get around to building newer versions.

2. Once that happens, a couple of years must pass

3. I finally get around to removing GH stuff from my code (is there a guide?)

4. a couple more years pass

5. now it's okay by me for released code to not have GH.

I think we're to step 3 now, but I need to check the Guile version distributed
with net/open/free BSD.  Last I looked (~4 or 5 years ago...), it was either
1.4.x or, perhaps, 1.6.x.  It was many years behind.  In any case, I would
suggest checking with your "customers" and "redistributors" instead of this list.
IMHO, anyway.

Regards, Bruce