From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: Guile-Devel Mailing List <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Backward compatibility
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:27:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wuclxu9r.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F59AA07.5010300@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> (Dirk Herrmann's message of "Sat, 06 Sep 2003 11:33:59 +0200")
Dirk Herrmann <dirk@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> 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 be bumping the major sonames with the next release anyway,
and that should avoid breaking any existing apps on install (i.e. we
can coexist with the old version). I suspect that's probably
sufficient.
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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2003-09-06 9:33 Backward compatibility Dirk Herrmann
2003-09-07 1:27 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-09-07 22:41 ` Marius Vollmer
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