From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: SCM_LENGTH ??? Date: 10 Jan 2005 15:59:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <41DED481.AEF0CABB@veritas.com> <200501101003.10523.bkorb@veritas.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105391332 13028 80.91.229.6 (10 Jan 2005 21:08:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, mckelvey@users.sourceforge.net, Marius Vollmer Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 10 22:08:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Co6mE-0003ox-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:08:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Co6xj-0005Dq-Pu for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Co6vX-0004qK-4N for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:18:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Co6vF-0004hR-HQ for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Co6vE-0004eR-Qu for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.1.100.210] (helo=fnord.ir.bbn.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Co6dM-0003Ny-SN for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 990122355; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:59:27 -0500 (EST) Original-To: bkorb@veritas.com In-Reply-To: <200501101003.10523.bkorb@veritas.com> Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:4039 1.4 is adequate for my needs (though I agree it is old enough to not worry about anymore). So, I want to build to an interface that works for either 1.6 *or* 1.8 and I would really hope for binary compatibility between them as well. Once 1.6.x has been dormant for a couple of years, *then* one can stop fretting over clients still using the thing. Note that it is now - when a 1.7 release is happening that we can say to those running 1.4 "you really should upgrade". Until a few months ago NetBSD pkgsrc compiled gnucash with 1.4. Infrastructure is slow to migrate. The real issue is that we want people to use guile, and thus have to be better about backwards compat than it might seem at first glance. For me, it's source-level compat - I have no expectation of running the same binary with with 1.6 or 1.8 shlibs. -- Greg Troxel _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user