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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Summary of config.h variables and questions.
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:57:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878yvswkrg.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87of4otvb0.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "06 Mar 2003 15:37:55 +0100")

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:

> Excellent work!  Thank a lot for doing this, Rob!
>
> Since this is a major change, we should not be doing it in the 1.6
> series unless there is a real and specific problem with them (as with
> PACKAGE).  For 1.7, we can make more sweeping changes to offer better
> alternatives (see below).

Definitely.  I'm only working on the 1.7 tree right now.

> We should keep these, since they have a proper name already:
>
>>   GUILE_DEBUG_MALLOC

Right.  The main question I had about this one was whether it needed
to be public -- it looks like it isn't used in any of our public
headers, but it was visible via scmconfig.h

> We should deprecate-and-keep these:
>
>>   DYNAMIC_LINKING
>>   GUILE_ISELECT
>>   READER_EXTENSIONS
>>   STACK_DIRECTION
>>   USE_THREADS
>
> Alternatives are

What do you mean by "Alternatives", an alternative to
"deprecate-and-keep"?

Thanks

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-05  5:44 Summary of config.h variables and questions Rob Browning
2003-03-06 14:37 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-06 15:57   ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-03-06 16:21     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-06 16:32       ` Rob Browning
2003-03-06 16:34       ` Rob Browning
2003-03-06 16:48         ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-06 16:49     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-06 17:26     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-03-06 18:27   ` Rob Browning
2003-03-06 18:48     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-06 22:10 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-03-07  5:24   ` Rob Browning

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