From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Initial SCTP support for the upcoming 1.6.5 release Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:03:41 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <28C61BE4-EB92-11D8-9129-000D932C78D8@lurchi.franken.de> <22A81E2B-ED67-11D8-84CE-000D932C78D8@lurchi.franken.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094655854 8946 80.91.224.253 (8 Sep 2004 15:04:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 17:03:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C53zI-00072I-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:03:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C544Z-0008CL-AV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C544S-0008C6-4T for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C544Q-0008BJ-KD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:09:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C544Q-0008BB-Gk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.217.163.1] (helo=mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C53z5-00029Z-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADE83B44B; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:03:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (krusty [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30828-04-2; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:03:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.17]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341752136C; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:03:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 520) id 99D5CB99A; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Michael Tuexen In-Reply-To: (Michael Tuexen's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:35:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de 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: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4102 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4102 Michael Tuexen writes: > Let me know what you think or if you have any questions. I am now fairly convinced that we should not provide full support for SCTP in guile-core. The reason is simply that this support depends on libsctp which might not be available. Also, absence of libsctp is no good indicator that the system does not support SCTP at all, the library might just happen not to be installed. We could make SCTP optional, but I really think that Guile's core API should have as few optional pieces as possible. Having to recompile Guile just to get SCTP support is not right. We could make Guile depend on libsctp, but that doesn't seem right either. libsctp is not essential to Guile in the way that libgmp is, say. Distributors such as Debian would have to decide whether to make Guile depend on libsctp or whether to exclude sctp altogether. Making SCTP support an add-on to Guile avoids making this decision. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel