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From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New backward incompatible version of Guile Config
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:41:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnv58bhr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s7lp87z.fsf@gnu.org>

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Hi Ludo,

Hope you're good :-)

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Alex!
>
> Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> To this end, in the attached patch, I add a new variable for 0.5. My
>> intention is to have 0.4.2 and 0.5 coexist for a while and then to
>> switch fully to 0.5 in due course.
>>
>>
>> Is this an acceptable way of doing a gradual transition to a backwards
>> incompatible version of the library?
>
> Definitely!  We’ve done that in the past for Guile-JSON, among others.
>
> Should we commit it on your behalf?

Yes indeed, please go ahead! Cheers :)

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17 15:53 New backward incompatible version of Guile Config Alex Sassmannshausen
2021-02-18 18:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-18 18:41   ` Alex Sassmannshausen [this message]
2021-02-22  9:04 ` Ludovic Courtès

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