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.devel Subject: User perception on backward compatibility Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:54:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87y6jrzq10.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264071343 7378 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2010 10:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:55:43 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 11:55:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXuhL-0000aR-8a for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:55:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXuhL-0004Z4-Vz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:55:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXuhD-0004Ys-FA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXuh8-0004Y3-Ob for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56276 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXuh8-0004Xs-Dh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44905) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXuh7-00037l-PF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NXuh0-0000P0-Lb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr ([147.210.128.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:55:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 2 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 218 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: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:htjV9wWzpo+I5Uu8aXoFfYuLVss= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9902 Archived-At: Hello! I think the next big task will be to list and try to reduce incompatibilities compared to 1.8. For the record, here’s what I found in GNU Dico; it’s interesting to see how its maintainer feels about backward compatibility in Guile: http://mail.gnu.org.ua/archives/html/public/bug-dico/threads.html#00000 Thanks, Ludo’.