Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Well, as long as we keep 'supporting' the 1.4 interfaces, there is little > incentive for developers to upgrade to the 1.6 or 1.8 API.
Let me be clear about this: it is (most likely) not the developers. It is my clients. Some of them upgrade to bleeding edge Guile and the obsoleted interfaces choke my program. I update the interfaces and somebody running on a platform still on Guile 1.4 complains that it chokes and dies on their system. I could, of course, incorporate the Guile library into my project, but I've determined that that is way, way, way over the top. If the interfaces are not stable enough for me to readily be able to support the current active platforms, then it is changing too quickly. As it is, I have a long collection of interface macros that wrap around Guile interfaces. Maintaining that isn't fun. :( [even less fun is the scm_c_eval_string_from_file_line() thing, the subject of posts in the past...] WRT the BSD distro: It's been a couple of years since I encountered the issue. I don't actively track it. A friend at UofU lets me play on some of his build platforms, so I'll try to remember to check next time I log in there. I'm certain it is pretty old. Cheers - Bruce _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
