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From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Future of ice-9/slib.scm.
Date: 18 Nov 2005 06:46:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rmir79e5gbl.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psoyhan9.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org>

  [1] Though actually, the current SLIB release still has the unix/UNIX
    symbol case issue (which has been fixed in CVS).  I believe it also
    doesn't define the (ice-9 slib) module if it detects guile 1.6, so
    we'd still need at least a small wrapper.

Good points; I had forgotten about the case problem because slib is
patched in NetBSD pkgsrc so i have a fixed version.

I understand your concern, but as I see it things are quite broken
now.  One could reasonably take the approach of

  ask Aubrey to make a new point release with symbol case fixed

  make ice-9/slib just a define-module/load wrapper, with an option
  for users to revert

  declare any problems with guile.init bugs in slib and fix them there

That will have a little short-term pain but get us quickly to a
non-broken state.


-- 
        Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-18 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16  5:23 Future of ice-9/slib.scm Rob Browning
2005-11-16  7:50 ` klaus schilling
2005-11-16 10:14   ` Andy Wingo
2005-11-17 19:16     ` Rob Browning
2005-11-16 15:38 ` Greg Troxel
2005-11-18  3:56   ` Rob Browning
2005-11-18 11:46     ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2005-11-19 14:22     ` Marius Vollmer
2005-11-19 18:09       ` Rob Browning
2005-11-19 21:43         ` Rob Browning
2005-11-19 23:38           ` Marius Vollmer
2005-11-20  1:06             ` Rob Browning
2005-11-20 20:01               ` Rob Browning
2005-11-20 21:09                 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-11-20 23:27                   ` Rob Browning
2005-12-09 20:42                     ` Rob Browning
2005-12-11  0:59                       ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-11  6:08                         ` Rob Browning
2005-12-12 19:39                           ` Greg Troxel
2005-12-13  1:33                             ` Rob Browning

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