From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ptobs for Guile 2.2+
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 17:25:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kkpzn8w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wnxmdrfv.fsf@gnuvola.org
Hi ttn,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> skribis:
> I'm trying to upgrade Guile-PG for Guile 2.2 (and possibly 3.0).
> It currently uses ptobs for the large object ("lobj") support in
> libpq, mostly for buffering and buffer synchronization. I see
> in libguile/ports.h (Guile 2.0.13), however:
>
> /* Hey you! Yes you, reading the header file! We're going to
> deprecate scm_ptobs in 2.2, so please don't write any new
> code that uses it. Thanks. */
>
> So, what do people do for "old" code that currently uses ptobs
> (i.e., for Guile 2.0 and earlier)? Is there a recommended
> migration path (besides "give up" :-D)? What am i missing?
Giving up sounds like a reasonable strategy to me at this point in
time. :-)
If you want to do it anyway, I know GDB and GnuTLS have port code that
deals with both 2.0 and 2.2/3.0, perhaps that can help.
HTH,
Ludo’.
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2020-12-13 8:46 ptobs for Guile 2.2+ Thien-Thi Nguyen
2020-12-13 16:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-12-13 17:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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