From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: RFD: drop the GH interface. Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:19:10 +0200 Message-ID: <49dd78620809140919k341bba56w3c3178ecb4cd6d4e@mail.gmail.com> References: <87wshgl5sd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221409264 31662 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 16:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?=" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 18:22:00 2008 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 1KeuMJ-00039H-Ge for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:21:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeuLI-0007w4-Nh for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeuJe-0007OZ-So for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeuJc-0007Nf-Mm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40984 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeuJc-0007Nc-KJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.249]:52573) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KeuJc-0001Hq-1g for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so1957766rvb.6 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:19:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bb5fFQrQZhkC1A/RurtTi+g5iPJvmi3d9ginHXnb98c=; b=UXSHh6MbLB9cjYuSo3KvLCnSgck6hYQ3BRFi6VnrBXhhCrUG3UUXeAzquElNaznw90 9xaL8lJAtHPMcTfHnag+v5vLgMJJ1/iyR03JFv9JpgLZp9Uogw2CJyWnHtBJcaswveW2 /26/dk3N8E4umEBzuRBkU0NWKjUcl3wJ+1Ci0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=EGsBWd2HWttfuZlJ2SRg7rVGeXk1p4OyNJKFb3sqos2rXYdZp07512pFSuswZbjPBJ Fep+p0eDeBlf39lwFS2z0XJgZK3bSoL7jxsuMuK/DB5M7VJeyJ+672wKk2jrB2K7WI8d n0lRuttVCHi9f4rh3BaF59YeNn0ytXC0Qfuck= Original-Received: by 10.141.169.11 with SMTP id w11mr4123602rvo.104.1221409150542; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.177.4 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:19:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wshgl5sd.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:7687 Archived-At: 2008/9/13 Ludovic Court=E8s : > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> The GH interface was marked as deprecated in >> >> commit a0143ebc24c24198e0dfce9b80f3648feb706226 >> Author: Neil Jerram >> Date: Wed Jun 20 22:08:19 2001 +0000 >> >> * Explain GH deprecation & plan for scm documentation. >> >> >> Let's really drop it now. > > Why? It doesn't cost much to keep it, does it? My view: it doesn't cost much, but it does cost something. For example, every time one greps the code to find all uses of a libguile function/variable/macro, the GH code means that there is a bit more to look at. In general, I think less code is better, so we would need a good reason for keeping the GH code, and we don't need an especially compelling reason to throw it away. Therefore, I vote for dropping it. Neil