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: %module-public-interface Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:07:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zl1pv89p.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: dough.gmane.org 1269983309 3482 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2010 21:08:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:08:29 +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 Tue Mar 30 23:08:17 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwifT-00045e-Km for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nwiel-0002F6-FO for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nwiee-0002Er-MT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55693 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nwiea-0002CE-DC for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwidM-0008QU-Bz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55750 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwidM-0008QQ-8A; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AC7A653C; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:05:59 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=nX7dOZSHFz/a O6DL2MJAn1xGFtc=; b=Kip4Z0flDso66uLy4IkuTlaYizHyGRkPk7EnleoDKpF2 02RT+Fmdrd5IRBB7lLXZU2UmOQkMsdKZ9LnWMVtXJ2LxzljrTYQauKrnsgb2dhcL bWUdllm091se9u7RX53pQcXnAMiLKm2OivXKJMUYeesi898KviD1nmWu68tiZ2s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=js93u4 2O6g94Ez+/aX+LF4Gx0Qi+6Ak9WS63beCp6y7jLp6fm1f2Lb1ZSpvPFMLNXL+8u5 96p0BunBshM6liuo5X707u6dRKRI4atNBCTrj4NcuVaCfoO4qR665URp2Ejr8FNF aYSnn3S/VBbdHv7B3Xy05vRhhk8l/Oni0GM+g= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2D2A653B; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:05:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [81.39.160.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BF179A6535; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:05:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zl1pv89p.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 09D2AC60-3C40-11DF-8B9F-D033EE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:10124 Archived-At: On Tue 30 Mar 2010 22:56, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >> I'm pretty sure that the submodule thing can be changed without any >> problem. But it seems that the %module-public-interface is used >> explicitly, at least by texmacs and lilypond. > > How do they use it? Linking to the evil empire: http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=3Den&lr=3D&q=3D%25module-public-interfa= ce&sbtn=3DSearch http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=3Den&lr=3D&q=3D%25module-public-interfa= ce+lang%3Ac%2B%2B&sbtn=3DSearch >> Any ideas on what the right thing to do is? Just leave it? Add fields to >> modules for the public interface and submodules, but keep the >> %module-public-interface binding? Throw up our hands and dance around? > > Yeah! > > And we could add a =E2=80=98public-interface=E2=80=99 slot to =E2=80=98mo= dule-type=E2=80=99 and have > =E2=80=98module-public-interface=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98set-module-public-= interface!=E2=80=99 refer to > it; for backward compatibility we=E2=80=99d also initialize the > =E2=80=98%module-public-interface=E2=80=99 binding. How does it sound? Dancing? OK! Also back compatibility. Er, yeah :) Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/