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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-lib changes
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:31:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pri7394r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m37i4fzqbi.fsf@pobox.com

Hi,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Tue 27 Jan 2009 21:55, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> I think Guile-Lib should check whether [modules] are available at
>> configure-time and install them iff they are not already available.
>
> I'd rather just require a specific version of 1.8.5... Anyway, if you
> want to do this, once the savannah thing goes through I'll add you to
> the project :)

Maybe.  My line of thought was that some people might be stuck with an
older 1.8 release from their distro and may not be able/willing to
upgrade, but maybe this can be ignored.

> I really don't want to be in the position of being "responsible" for
> poorly documented modules.

I understand.  Perhaps they could be prominently marked as deprecated in
the header or in the manual?

>>   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.guile-lib.devel/454
>
> Pushed out to http://wingolog.org/git/guile-lib.git, still waiting for
> the asynchronous project start on savannah...

Thanks!

Ludo'.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 17:36 guile-lib changes Andy Wingo
2009-01-27 19:14 ` Julian Graham
2009-01-27 20:32   ` Andy Wingo
2009-01-27 21:20     ` Mike Gran
2009-01-27 20:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-01-28 10:18   ` Andy Wingo
2009-01-28 12:31     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2009-01-28 15:12       ` Andy Wingo
2009-01-28 23:37         ` Ludovic Courtès

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