On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Does anyone know why there is a custom string-split procedure in >>> main.scm? >>> >>>> Guile 1.6 and up already includes this as a standard procedure. Are we >>>> trying to support older versions, or is this a leftover from days past? >>>> >>>> >>> I *SUSPECT* it's a holdover from old days when we were trying to support >>> older versions. Or it could have been a bugfix. I don't know. >>> Check the svn log information? >>> >>> >> I didn't see anything in the log. Too bad the messages are so brief. What >> is >> the oldest version of Guile that GnuCash currently supports? (Better yet, >> how do I find this information myself?) >> > > At this point -- 1.6. > But previous versions of GnuCash supported 1.3.4 and 1.4 > However I believe we dropped versions < 1.6 in 2.0 or 2.2. > A custom string-split would have been necessary for supporting Guile 1.4 and below. If GnuCash will never support those versions again, then I think we can just drop it. Shall I do that? At the very least, I could move it out of main.scm and into the new file of string procedures. I was thinking of calling it src/scm/string.scm. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
