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 00:36:48 -0500 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874rifqeo8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cxxkvj8.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019021992 11378 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 05:39:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Marius Vollmer , 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 16xiAZ-0002xO-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:39:52 +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 16xi9o-0007zR-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:39:04 -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 16xi7e-0007vs-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77F3642C; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:36:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF68F2DF0; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:36:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: (Neil Jerram's message of "16 Apr 2002 21:24:52 +0100") Original-Lines: 21 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:198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:198 Neil Jerram writes: > (OK, I think that's enough devil's advocate from me on this general > argument. In fact I'm as much in favour of simplifying and cleaning > up the core as everyone else, and I realize that sometimes we have to > compromise compatibility in order to move forward. Let's just be as > considerate as we can in the process.) No problem -- this kind of self-examination is a good idea. However I do feel like guile probably needs to be thought of as a project still pretty "deep in the design phase", so while we need to make a strong effort not to be gratuitous with our incompatibilities, I suspect there will still be plenty going forward, for another few releases at least. -- 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