From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl ) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP). Date: 16 May 2002 17:38:47 -0600 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ptzxp8le.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87vg9oqf5b.fsf_-_@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20020516132133.A24385@gas-o> <877km4qa7z.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20020516164045.C24385@gas-o> <874rh7n0ng.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20020516193535.A26480@gas-o> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021592354 6109 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 23:39:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 23:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178Uq2-0001aQ-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 01:39:14 +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 178Ups-0002Tc-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.7.157.8] (helo=ntserver-4d18.4dvision.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178Upc-0002TN-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from latakia.dyndns.org (unverified [66.7.170.6]) by ntserver-4d18.4dvision.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.3.228) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:40:36 -0600 Original-Received: (from ruhl@localhost) by latakia.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.8.7) id g4GNclO15116; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:38:47 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: latakia.dyndns.org: ruhl set sender to ruhl@4dv.net using -f Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20020516193535.A26480@gas-o> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 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:449 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:449 "Jeff Read" writes: > > I once heard a statistic that said the Gnucash project, for > instance, has some 60 lib dependencies. It is pretty nasty, but I believe a major reason is that it uses later versions of various libraries than are common, _and_ that said libraries are under heavy development, and thus the APIs change. Hence it requires a slew of downloads to work. OTOH, programming against the older libraries would be hell. That's why I use guile 1.4 for travtrack. The unfortunate side effect is that this means that it will not compile for most folks. > Ideally, as you said, we'd provide an option to allow the user to > opt out of GMP usage, hopefully with no loss in functionality. Well, they'd have to lose some functionality--or else what's the point of GMP in the first place? -- Robert Uhl Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user