Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Thanks for the update! Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: >> i'd like to apply the fix myself (in the savannah repo), onto >> ‘branch_release-1-8’. > >Yes, please do! Can you apply it to stable-2.0 as well? > > Sorry, no; i lack sufficient bandwidth. OK, I’ll do it if nobody beats me a

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-09-20 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) () Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:24:26 +0200 > Looking to move WIKID[0] out of the Guile 1.4.x ghetto (which is > pretty cozy, i must say), (Speaking of which, do let me know when rpx has left the ghetto, too. :-)) OK, will do. If the world doesn't end, a cou

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mike Gran skribis: > The big issues with moving to 2.0 that I've seen expressed are > non-portability, I don’t think 2.0 is less portable than 1.8; there’s room for improvement (MinGW, pthread support), but it’s not a disaster either. > number of dependencies, There’s are two on-going thi

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Gran
> From: Ludovic Courtès >> I imagine if this particular fix goes smoothly, i will be motivated to >> continue w/ this kind of maintenance work, where the focus is on >> continuity and stability (perhaps likewise showing 1.6 and 1.4 some >> love, as well). > > Hmm, I’d find it more important

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Thien-Thi! Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: > Looking to move WIKID[0] out of the Guile 1.4.x ghetto (which is pretty > cozy, i must say), (Speaking of which, do let me know when rpx has left the ghetto, too. :-)) > i ran into a Guile 1.8 problem. Apparently, ‘send’ gratuitously > demands its MES

1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-24 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Looking to move WIKID[0] out of the Guile 1.4.x ghetto (which is pretty cozy, i must say), i ran into a Guile 1.8 problem. Apparently, ‘send’ gratuitously demands its MESSAGE arg (a string) be writable. This loses if, e.g., MESSAGE is the result of ‘symbol->string’. Here is the fix: libguile/s