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: Backward compatibility Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:27:28 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wuclxu9r.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> 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 1062898102 21855 80.91.224.253 (7 Sep 2003 01:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile-Devel Mailing List Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 03:28:20 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 19voLj-0002vs-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 03:28:20 +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 19voLN-00034i-3R for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:27:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19voKy-00033c-QD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19voKx-00032C-5C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19voKw-00031w-OM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19783F46; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:27:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67C59810DB; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:27:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Dirk Herrmann In-Reply-To: <3F59AA07.5010300@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> (Dirk Herrmann's message of "Sat, 06 Sep 2003 11:33:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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:2753 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2753 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 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 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