From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: anyone define port types? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:08:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87pots9tag.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y492mnjp.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460642962 24678 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2016 14:09:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user , guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 14 16:09:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aqhxL-0000MG-OP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:09:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqhxK-0003fO-Vy for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqhxA-0003Zc-5K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqhx4-0001bX-7t for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqhx4-0001bS-4x; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.57]:59952 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aqhx3-0001or-Ei; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:08:57 -0400 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 26 Germinal an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87y492mnjp.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:04:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18285 gmane.lisp.guile.user:12545 Archived-At: Hey! Andy Wingo skribis: > I am working on improving our port implementation to take advantage of > the opportunity to break ABI in 2.2. I am wondering how much I can > break C API as well -- there are some changes that would allow better > user-space threading > (e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/14158/focus=3D15463 > or Chris Webber's 8sync). But those changes would require some > incompatible changes to the C API related to port internals. This API > is pretty much only used when implementing port types. So, I would like > to collect a list of people that implement their own ports :) I know > Guile-GNOME does it for GNOME-VFS, though GNOME-VFS is super-old at this > point... Anyway. Looking forward to your links :) What do you conclude from this poll? :-) >From what you=E2=80=99ve seen, how do you think current uses would impact t= he refactoring work (and vice versa)? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.