From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:29:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87oe5lb0ot.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <878xwx5ld2.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <8764s0a7e6.fsf@laas.fr> <8764rzj8py.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87k6gc8167.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129761121 29260 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2005 22:32:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Users Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 00:31:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESMRG-0004Q2-9w for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:29:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESMRF-00028J-Ml for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESMR7-00024A-9u for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESMR6-000231-5G for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESMR5-00022R-DE for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESMR5-0001PG-Et for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-139-117-151.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.139.117.151]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E75409FA7; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:29:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7B56F6CE; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:29:22 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Greg Troxel In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "18 Oct 2005 12:16:05 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4878 Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > That all sounds fine, except that I think (policy!) we should either > discourage putting stuff under 1.6, or suggest 1.6/site, so that > guile's own files and other stuff are cleanly separated. I agree that > mechanism sufficient for various policies is the key point, but think > we also need to suggest sane behavior to avoid future messes to be > backwards-compat with. OK. We can do this by a combination of (i) setting the default so that 3rd party stuff doesn't go under 1.6, (ii) providing a note on this point for distributors (new top level DISTRIBUTION file?). Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user