Guile-core has been branched for 1.8

2006-02-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
Hi, as promised, I have branched the guile-core module for the 1.8 release. The branch tag is named branch_release-1-8 and it is rooted at the tag branch-root_release-1-8. Please check it out! Daily snapshots of 1.8 should appear in ftp://ftp.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/guile/snapshot

Re: doc libdir and C code modules

2006-02-05 Thread Kevin Ryde
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I didn't realize that > Autoconf could do @libdir@ substitutions so conveniently. I've got a suspicion the gnu standards call for them to be done at make-time rather than configure-time. I forget where it says or said that, the distinction is too subtle

Re: Branching for 1.8 on 2006-02-05

2006-02-05 Thread Rob Browning
Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hehe, it is already very late. :-) > > I really want to get this thing done now, and I don't want to > 'waste' time and try to find the optimal point for branching. I am > in my 'what the heck' mode right now, and maybe I will regret it > later, but wh

Re: [PATCH] Inlining `scm_is_pair ()'

2006-02-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I just put scm_is_pair into inline.h, using our existing inlining >> machinery that should be portable enough. > > Maybe scm_is_eq too (picking up scm_is_true and scm_is_false at the > same time). scm_is_eq

Re: Branching for 1.8 on 2006-02-05

2006-02-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> (What we have in the 1.8 branch is not immediately the 1.8.0 release, >>> but should be very close.) >> >> Do you really want to branch at all? > > For what it's worth, I'd say there a benefit to branching as l