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: gnome-guile broken with guile 1.5 (gg used guile-snarf). Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:30:38 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wuwhiidd.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87hentznk5.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <877kojuij8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <876641lm2g.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015968799 30825 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2002 21:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, ariel@arcavia.com Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kttX-000814-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:33:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kttJ-0007N8-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:33:05 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ktqx-0005s8-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:30:39 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8343444C6; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:30:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6BFC11BAA; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:30:38 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:04:44 -0800") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > does anyone mind if i add this explanation to the manual in the > terminology section? it seems to be a fundamental part of the > user/maintainer dialogue. I'm not particularly excited by the term "drift" if that's what you're getting at. I'm sure there are better ways to describe the issue -- if you'll note it was about 11:30PM here when I write the original message and I wasn't all that concerned with getting every word exactly right. All I was *really* trying to get across was that something was still broken, and I wasn't sure exactly what the source of the problem was. However, if you're talking about documenting the more general issue of problems related to public vs private APIs, cross-version maintenance, and the importance of regression testing, then I've got no problem with that. > ack, i had been looking at how guile-1.4 does its own snarfing for a > hint at how guile-1.4 guile-snarf works, but that was a mistake! > guile-1.4 uses some other method of snarfing for itself. guile-snarf is > not even used there. must. fight. gumption. leak... OK, well just let me know if you need help, or if you figure out how you'd like to handle programs using the older approach, and I'll fix up gnome-guile accordingly. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel