Re: Branching for 1.8 on 2006-02-05

2006-02-06 Thread Marius Vollmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Also if we don't want to have people hold off on 1.9 only bits in the >> trunk, then I'd say that now qualifies as "as late as possible" ;> > > There has been no 1.7.3, the CVS repository has been r

Re: doc libdir and C code modules

2006-02-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > Shouldn't there be a note saying that the actual shared library name > will follow the system's naming convention, be it `libfoobar-c-code.so', > `libfoobar-c-code.sl', `foobar-c-code.dll', etc.? I put "(etc)", don't want to clutter with an essay on

Re: doc libdir and C code modules

2006-02-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I didn't realize that Autoconf could do @libdir@ substitutions so > conveniently. Actually I had it a bit wrong, the usual autoconf $(libdir) value needs to get expanded by some shell/make. That'd be why I've been using that way I guess :-). I updated

Re: `scm_list ()'

2006-02-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > Why not marking it as deprecated as well? Because there's nothing wrong with it! :) Deprecated should mean something that has a fatal flaw, something so bad that applications must be forced away from it. ___

Re: doc libdir and C code modules

2006-02-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I added the words below to the manual as the last subsection in > "Dynamic Libraries", to encourage packages to use libdir. I don't > want to re-open the can of worms about versioning and stuff, this is > intended just to describe the present situation. C

Re: Branching for 1.8 on 2006-02-05

2006-02-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also if we don't want to have people hold off on 1.9 only bits in the > trunk, then I'd say that now qualifies as "as late as possible" ;> There has been no 1.7.3, the CVS repository has been relatively quiet since 1.7.2, and applying patches has so

Re: `scm_list ()'

2006-02-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No thanks, I'll put the original no-op. Why not marking it as deprecated as well? Thanks, Ludovic. ___ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel