Hi Bruce, and thanks for your input on this...
2008/9/18 Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> From a Guile-user and not developer perspective, the sequence needs to be:
> 1. the most retrograde platform must have all the GH capabilities in
> the SCM interfaces for their releases. It seems to take quite a few
> years for BSD to get around to building newer versions.
Greg has countered this, I believe. Do you still think there's any
real concern here?
> 2. Once that happens, a couple of years must pass
I'm not sure exactly what starting point you mean, but
- Guile 1.8.1 was released in October 2006
- the decision to deprecate and eventually remove GH happened in June 2001.
> 3. I finally get around to removing GH stuff from my code
Just to be clear: are you saying that you still need to do this?
> (is there a guide?)
Yes, node `Transitioning away from GH' in the manual.
(And there's also the GH code, of course, libguile/gh*.)
> 4. a couple more years pass
Why is this interval needed?
> In any case, I would
> suggest checking with your "customers" and "redistributors" instead of this
> list.
I will make an announcement to the guile-users list; that should be
enough. (Anyone who is going to use or package a new Guile version
needs to be (at least vaguely) following guile-devel or guile-users.)
Regards,
Neil
