Hello, Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> () [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) > () Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:21:48 +0200 > > I've never actually used that option, but can you provide > rationale for removing it? I'd rather not remove it without a > good reason to do so. > > It's not useful (you said it yourself). I didn't say that. I suppose it can be useful in some situations, I just never needed it myself. One reason for this is that I rarely invoke `guile-tools' directly, but rather through Autoconf macros or similar, as you noted. Another reason is that a large part of the scripts `guile-tools' run is undocumented and unmaintained. > I bet that if we were to omit the removal of this misfeature from > NEWS, no one would even notice. (Same goes for --guileversion and > --help-all, which are next up on the chopping block.) Maybe, but let's not try that. ;-) > [It was (sort of) nice that guile-tools could be used to mux > (dispatch) other functionality, but that sort of flexibility is > available by more standard means (e.g., set PATH env var).] Is it another way of saying the scripts could go into $bindir? Why not, but that would mean cleaning up and documenting the scripts, removing deprecated ones, and possibly prepending `guile-' to their names. Thanks, Ludovic.
