I feel obligated to respond, having made all sorts of noise. 2009/1/15 Neil Jerram <neiljer...@googlemail.com>:
> whether people think that scm_init_guile is really needed. kill it. there seem to be perfectly adequate ways of living without it. Unfortunately, the current documentation describing how to use guile with threads is confusing. It is certainly the case that, for naive, new users, scm_init_guile seems to be the easiest way to get guile going in a thread. This makes it a popular choice. Its not until you dig in deeply, and discover how guile actually works (and then think about it a bit), that you discover that perhaps scm_init_guile wasn't the right choice. And then you have to refactor your code ... possibly in large ways ... So, the real question is -- how many existing guile apps call scm_init_guile()? On the other hand, breaking them by removing scm_init_guile is possibly a good thing ... it will probably cause them to fix bugs that were lurking and waiting to bite. --linas
