> From: Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> > So, what do you think about always adding O_BINARY to files that Guile > opens?
Lilypond, Gnucash, Denemo, Autogen and Emacs all run on Windows to varying degrees. As does Gnome Games. If it doesn't break any of them, then it might be okay. In an ideal world, there would be a cross-platform build bot that runs 'make check' on each of these things so that one could know if a change was going to break something. But, for what it is worth, I think it is a bad idea. If you imagine a program that uses autoconf... One way to deal with the rapid churn of API in Guile is to check for the presence or absence of a function. Most of our API changes could be detected in a configure script by checking to see if a procedure is present or absent. This would be something else entirely. To deal with this in an autoconf sense, one would have to write a test that actually reads and writes a file. -Mike
