From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: RFD: drop the GH interface. Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:29:47 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87wshgl5sd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221417401 23233 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 18:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:36:41 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 20:37:37 2008 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 1KewTM-0004OW-H6 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:37:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KewSL-0002TJ-Pf for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KewNc-0000Nk-Ih for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KewNa-0000L5-QG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:31:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34746 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KewNa-0000Kn-D9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43212 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KewNZ-0006z3-SJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KewNX-00029d-0H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:31:23 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.3.52 ([201.80.3.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:31:22 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.3.52 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:31:22 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.3.52 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <87wshgl5sd.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:7691 Archived-At: Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> The GH interface was marked as deprecated in >> >> commit a0143ebc24c24198e0dfce9b80f3648feb706226 >> Author: Neil Jerram >> Date: Wed Jun 20 22:08:19 2001 +0000 >> >> * Explain GH deprecation & plan for scm documentation. >> >> >> Let's really drop it now. > > Why? It doesn't cost much to keep it, does it? It is a small cost, but it is recurring. Eliminating it once will save us work over a longer period. Also, if we don't remove interfaces that we deprecate, we shouldn't bother with deprecating them in the first place. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen