Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > For these reasons, I decided against recommending those undocumented > initialization functions. Instead, I suggested that David initialize > binary ports by loading (ice-9 binary-ports): > > (void) scm_c_resolve_module ("ice-9 binary-ports");
That sounds like the best option, indeed. > For Guile 2.0.12, I suggest that we unconditionally do the equivalent of > 'scm_init_bytevectors' and 'scm_init_r6rs_ports' during Guile > initialization, and make those functions into deprecated no-ops. Agreed, that’s what I was going to suggest. That these init functions are not marked as internal is really an oversight. I wouldn’t be against simply making them SCM_INTERNAL in 2.0.12, but making them public + deprecated as you suggest is even better. Thanks, Ludo’.