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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New backward incompatible version of Guile Config
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s7lp87z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735xuzo4w.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Sassmannshausen's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:53:51 +0100")

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?

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 18:03 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 [this message]
2021-02-18 18:41   ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2021-02-22  9:04 ` Ludovic Courtès

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