From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clinton Ebadi Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Forking stables. was Re: language translator help Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:08:12 -0400 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206141608.12568.unknown_lamer@unknownlamer.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024085393 9721 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2002 20:09:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17IxOK-0002Wg-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:09:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17IxNb-0002Fi-00; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from whale.nocdns.com ([209.151.66.88]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17IxMk-00029j-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from pool-151-196-172-241.balt.east.verizon.net ([151.196.172.241] helo=vsynth ident=mail) by whale.nocdns.com with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17IxMW-000794-00; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from clinton by vsynth with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17IxNA-0007ka-00; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:08:40 -0400 Original-To: ttn@glug.org, Thien-Thi Nguyen , markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 In-Reply-To: X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - whale.nocdns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vsynth.aletia.com Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:592 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:592 On Friday 14 June 2002 15:32, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > From: MJ Ray > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:44:43 GMT >=20 > I think that stable series releases should not break *any* programs > unless they rely on a clearly buggy behaviour. Upgrading between > stable series may. > > if this is the premise, you can think of each "stable series" as a high > mountain w/ rickety rope bridges crossing the chasms between them. in > that case don't you think it would be a good idea to grow your crops on > each, rather than asking people to risk life and limb for every meal? > > sure, you may be a god and have ability to transport yourself through > the air w/ greatest of ease (and consort w/ similar beings who see > nothing of jumping a thousand leagues for breakfast). that's not the > question. > > thi How hard is it to rewrite code from 1.4 to 1.6? It wasn't too hard with=20 glame...I mean, all of gh is still there except for the the lazy modules=20 registering stuff (but then you have scm_c_define_module, you just have t= o=20 make sure to scm_c_export everything). This is no reason to fork. Get ove= r=20 it, spend a few hours updating your code, and move on with life. Wow, tha= t=20 was easy. --=20 http://unknownlamer.org Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Flag Burner. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user