From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Build failure on master Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:46:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1247412093.30108.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87bpnpva3w.fsf@gnu.org> <874otf7min.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <87my777649.fsf@gnu.org> <87my775mpo.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <878wiq539t.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248387293 15285 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2009 22:14:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 24 00:14:46 2009 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 1MU6Yn-00010E-07 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:14:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6Ym-0003Ca-8d for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6Yi-0003BG-9i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6Yd-00039R-D1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55777 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6Yd-00039L-5S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:40921 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MU6Ya-00057Z-Hb; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47447FBFF; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [81.38.186.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7F213FBFE; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:14:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878wiq539t.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:05:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 328E84D2-77D6-11DE-B979-AEF1826986A2-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:8946 Archived-At: On Wed 15 Jul 2009 00:05, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >>> Then it could also try to interpret version numbers and determine >>> whether that bytecode is really incompatible, or whether it can >>> interpret it. >> >> Are there scenarios where that would be worthwhile? > > Maybe, e.g., when the `.go' version is known to be a strict subset of > the current objcode version. We could do that, yes. Treat the version N.M as compatible with O.P if N=3D=3DO and P <=3D M in the ascii sequence. Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/