From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: deprecated features Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:33 +1100 Message-ID: <877ivev9ju.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <871wlprck9.fsf@chbouib.org> <45B4C7A0.5020302@xs4all.nl> <87tzyiwzwv.fsf@zip.com.au> <45B55C06.2000603@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169514246 15443 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2007 01:04:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 02:03:58 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 1H9A4q-0005AG-TL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:03:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9A4q-00084K-DQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9A4j-00080s-GF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:03:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9A4g-0007xL-U5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:03:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9A4g-0007ww-GY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.2.215] (helo=mailout1.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H9A4f-0008FB-Pm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.163]) by mailout1.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214845A7C7E for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:44 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2286.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.34.134]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884C027410 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:43 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H9A4U-00006V-5B for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:34 +1100 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <45B55C06.2000603@xs4all.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:51:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:6474 Archived-At: Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > > If not now, is there any sort of timescale for when this is scheduled? Hopefully never for many bits. I think several things have been tagged unnecessarily. If something is not very nice, then by all means shunt it off to a corner of the manual and advertise the good way. But taking stuff out is bad. > I think it is reasonable to let deprecated interfaces live for one stable > release, You yourself have complained about things changed and removed, no? SCM_STRING_CHARS perhaps ... :-) One stable is much too short. Surely it's not reasonable to expect everyone to review all their programs on every stable release. > to allow people to update broken programs, and remove them after > that. My point is that many bits in question aren't and weren't broken. Not too nice, sure, but not utterly hopeless. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel