From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Re-addition of deprecated stuff to 1.7. Date: 26 Apr 2003 09:31:23 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051346256 2929 80.91.224.249 (26 Apr 2003 08:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 08:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 26 10:37:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 199LBe-0000l7-00 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:37:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 199LBY-0000rb-01 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 199LBC-0000nc-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 199LBB-0000jR-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 199LBA-0000jF-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net (bts-0125.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.48.125]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3Q8b2i30810; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:37:02 +0100 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])ESMTP id D0ADEDC4D5; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:31:23 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2204 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2204 >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer writes: Marius> Hi, I have started to re-add most of the things that were Marius> deprecated in 1.6 and removed in 1.7. I hope everyone Marius> agrees that this is OK. Yes, but can it be done in a way that the back compatible bits are kept separate from the core? A while ago you mentioned something like _GNU_SOURCE, which seems exactly right to me. For example, an application would just say #define _GUILE_SOURCE 1.6 #include And a 1.7.x/1.8.x libguile.h would have something at the end like #if _GUILE_SOURCE = 1.6 #include #endif Similarly, any back compatibility object code would ideally be in libguile-compat-1.6.so; although I'm not sure how to make the linking in of the extra library as automatic as possible for the application author. Marius> The idea is that we should backwards compatability for a Marius> longer time when it is easy enough to do. I am adding the Marius> things in as clean a way as possible, so that they do not Marius> get in the way of the mainline code. It's possible that I may have described what you are already doing, then :-) Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel