From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Summary of config.h variables and questions. Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:57:23 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yvswkrg.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87znoal646.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87of4otvb0.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046966264 3021 80.91.224.249 (6 Mar 2003 15:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 16:57:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qxkZ-0000mF-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:57:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qxke-0005CR-00 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qxkN-0005Bu-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:57:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qxkM-0005B7-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:57:26 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qxkL-0005AD-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8F984; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:57:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3202D9938; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:57:23 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87of4otvb0.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "06 Mar 2003 15:37:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2029 Marius Vollmer 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 -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel