Re: development goals

2008-09-09 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Mon 08 Sep 2008 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> - Nobody has enough initiative to put a single strategic #ifdef in the >> code. > > To me, it looks like the "strategic #if 0" was a way of admitting that > we know our

Re: development goals

2008-09-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> You might construe that I would like to turn Guile development into >> LilyPond development. That is not necessarily the case, but I keep >> misunderstanding what people expect in this community. I am assuming >> that developers in general are interested in a more liv

Re: development goals

2008-09-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey! "Neil Jerram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me, almost all of my time since becoming a maintainer has been > absorbed by working on bug fixes, largely to do with slightly odd > platforms (e.g. Mac) or architectures (e.g. ia64). IMO it was > worthwhile to focus on such bug reports soon a

Re: development goals

2008-09-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Han-Wen, You're confrontational, indeed. Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Rolling back a patch is preferred over fixing actual problems. What makes you say so? > - Nobody has enough initiative to put a single strategic #ifdef in the > code. To me, it looks like the "strat

Re: development goals

2008-09-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Neil Jerram escreveu: > 2008/9/7 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> OK - I will admit that interpreter/GC hacking is cool, but on the >> downside, when I try to do anything, the intertia/resistance I feel in >> the community here is a big turnoff for me. > > Do you mean regarding releases (a

Re: development goals (was: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()')

2008-09-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/7 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK - I will admit that interpreter/GC hacking is cool, but on the > downside, when I try to do anything, the intertia/resistance I feel in > the community here is a big turnoff for me. Do you mean regarding releases (as you say more on below)? Or

Re: development goals (was: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()')

2008-09-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Andy Wingo escreveu: >> I am not using and enhancing GUILE primarily for fun. > > Then why do it? > > I'm serious. Because I take my (LilyPond) users serious. OK - I will admit that interpreter/GC hacking is cool, but on the downside, when I try to do anything, the intertia/resistance I feel i