Hello! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> I think we should focus on the GNU system, using gnulib to adapt other > systems to look like GNU. Disabling POSIX bindings helps no one on the > GNU system -- if the question is one of library size, the solution > should be loadable modules, not compile-time options. We are doing very > well in that way. A stripped libguile is 1.5MB, like libc. I think the compile-time option can be useful when building on a “raw” or old system, which doesn’t support all the POSIX bits we wrap, or on a slow system. For instance, when we port Guile to run on the bare metal, we’ll be happy that ‘--disable-posix --disable-networking --disable-threads’ nicely delimits the contour of what we need, won’t we? > That said, I don't like a lot of our POSIX bindings. It's in the > default module, and it's lots of symbols. But it's probably best to > migrate to some more modularized world using deprecation than to > continue with the --disable-posix fantasy. Yeah. I think it’s been on the to-do list since 1.4. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
