From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:56:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20240629002027.13853-1-richard@freakingpenguin.com> <87h6co21qv.fsf@laura> <87r0bsxpoe.fsf@web.de> <4d9d9c2e-0830-4267-b8e5-1a50cb815508@msavoritias.me> <87a5ifyd0g.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35743"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: MSavoritias , guile-devel@gnu.org To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 19 00:56:39 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sUa3D-000996-41 for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:56:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUa2t-0001Dv-A7; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUa2r-0001Dm-5C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from s1.lexort.com ([2605:2700:0:2:a800:ff:fe4b:be00]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUa2o-0000KN-Ir for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: by s1.lexort.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 5333641067C; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:56:07 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=lexort.com; s=mail; t=1721343367; bh=FQzbN60rBLA7/DLns1ey5Hysqcy3ght0SN589otpOiU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date; b=bHcLDZcwIS/Biu+vTlw0j8iiRsEi7MsQq0ZJI7bzT3xTqb/1OZ4q/25Izm+V5OPSY mu8gY5VmNhElChgzdiljn0V9356bibPZ1kBmua7XD49HeZAFd/bGjh4wkOyLvGBjnV tkONXWaWiRF6Cz1rEK4uMO4t0aZD7nW/VhTabFKA= In-Reply-To: <87a5ifyd0g.fsf@web.de> (Arne Babenhauserheide's message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:33:35 +0200") OpenPGP: id=098ED60E Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2605:2700:0:2:a800:ff:fe4b:be00; envelope-from=gdt@lexort.com; helo=s1.lexort.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:22586 Archived-At: I'll just add, as someone who works on packaging of guile in pkgsrc, that we have had to have multiple versions for a long time. There is software useful enough for people to want, with various requirements. Currently we have 1.8 2.0 2.2 3.0 If there were more concern about compatibility -- all 2.0 programs will compile an work with 3.0 -- then we would not need to keep the old versions.