From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Backward compatibility Date: 08 Sep 2003 00:41:30 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r82sdxwl.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <3F59AA07.5010300@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062975091 2828 80.91.224.253 (7 Sep 2003 22:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile-Devel Mailing List Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 00:51:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19w8NV-0001UX-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 00:51:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19w8NB-0002uK-V3 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19w8M7-0002sJ-RS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19w8LI-0002Uq-M3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.138.43.52] (helo=zagadka.ping.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.22) id 19w8Kl-00028b-Cs for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 15816 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Sep 2003 22:41:30 -0000 Original-To: Dirk Herrmann In-Reply-To: <3F59AA07.5010300@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2758 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2758 Dirk Herrmann writes: > I realize that you, Marius, have put a lot of effort to make guile > backwards compatible. Do you intend to make it binary backwards > compatible, or is it sufficient for you if Guile was sourcecode > backwards compatible? We should not break binary compatibility gratuitously, when there is no good reason. But in general, source code compatibility is good enough in HEAD. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel