From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile release planning Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:22:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87d4gtl4fc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <49dd78620811101723m6b014589ua01037d5ea3f17b9@mail.gmail.com> <3ae3aa420811101944m23d7a72ch992c253326f7e236@mail.gmail.com> <49dd78620811151516l2f59808co2af6d1f38cd3db9c@mail.gmail.com> <873ahrl00d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227003928 24787 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2008 10:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 11:26:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2Nms-0004bw-BK for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:26:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Nlj-0002Qa-Ll for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Nld-0002QL-Ti for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Nla-0002O9-8X for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57713 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Nla-0002No-3v for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35295 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2NlZ-00010H-2M for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2NlW-0007Aw-E0 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from dhcpr-239.futurs.inria.fr ([195.83.212.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by dhcpr-239.futurs.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcpr-239.futurs.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 Brumaire an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rbs8nc+l2xrjsyKsBeMzfmkInzY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6936 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7861 Archived-At: Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > Beating a dead horse, 1.8.5 should be compatible with 1.8.3, via > whatever mechanism. (The actual problem in this case was elsewhere.) 1.8.5 *is* compatible with 1.8.x. > I am skeptical of pushing significant changes into stable branches. I > really don't want to be in the situation in which 1.8.4 works for > someone, but 1.8.7 does not. You might be right, Neil, about that path, > but it does not give me warm fuzzy feelings. Same for me, but we can surely find a reasonable trade-off. Thanks, Ludo'.