From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: [d.love@dl.ac.uk: dynamic loading of native code modules] Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:25:37 -0500 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874rifqeo8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87lmbpiocf.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019021273 10668 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 05:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@glug.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, 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 16xhyz-0002lx-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:27:53 +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 16xhyF-0005hn-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xhwy-0005Xw-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3153A642C; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:25:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC87B2DF0; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:25:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Neil Jerram Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) 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:197 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:197 Neil Jerram writes: > In summary, then, if a module author previously packaged his/her > library so that it could be loaded by (use-modules (pkg whatnot)), > there is a way that he/she can continue to make (use-modules (pkg > whatnot)) work in 1.6. That sounds OK to me. Right. They may just have to create a fairly trivial .scm file and move their shared lib to one of the "proper" lib directories. > True, but I'm still slightly worried that one of the influences on > {the set of people interested enough to maintain surrounding packages} > might be a gradual trickle of incompatible changes in the core. Well worth keeping an eye on as a possibility, but I suspect we're probably helping offset this now by active assistance, better documentation, help on the lists, etc., all things that are crucial going forward. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user