Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > I tend to disagree. > > At the current release rate of GUILE, I'd expect anyone using GUILE > seriously to run the CVS version. I do, at least. The last time I looked, you could find the 1.4 series being released with some BSD distributions. That means my stuff has t

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bruce Korb escreveu: > By the way, have you all given any consideration to releasing a > valgrind config file that would clean out valgrind chaff? > I recently needed to do a valgrind run and it was quite painful. I always use the file below. I am not sure what the best way to distribute it would

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bruce Korb escreveu: >> At the current release rate of GUILE, I'd expect anyone using GUILE >> seriously to run the CVS version. I do, at least. > > The last time I looked, you could find the 1.4 series being released > with some BSD distributions. That means my stuff has to run against which

Re: More i18n

2007-01-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Kevin, I basically agree with most of your remarks. Here are some I don't quite agree with or that deserve discussion. Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> +* i18n Introduction:: Introduction to Guile's i18n support. > > "i18n" is a horrible geek-ish abbreviation, much bette

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Bruce Korb escreveu: >> By the way, have you all given any consideration to releasing a >> valgrind config file that would clean out valgrind chaff? >> I recently needed to do a valgrind run and it was quite painful. > > I always use the file below. I am not sure what th

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Well, as long as we keep 'supporting' the 1.4 interfaces, there is little > incentive for developers to upgrade to the 1.6 or 1.8 API. Let me be clear about this: it is (most likely) not the developers. It is my clients. Some of them upgrade to bleeding edge Guile and t

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bruce Korb escreveu: > it chokes and dies on their system. I could, of course, incorporate > the Guile library into my project, but I've determined that that is > way, way, way over the top. If the interfaces are not stable enough As a sidenote, We incorporate a copy of the GUILE library in the

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Bruce Korb escreveu: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> Bruce Korb escreveu: >>> By the way, have you all given any consideration to releasing a >>> valgrind config file that would clean out valgrind chaff? >>> I recently needed to do a valgrind run and it was quite painful. >> I always use the file belo

Re: deprecated features

2007-01-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: By the way, have you all given any consideration to releasing a valgrind config file that would clean out valgrind chaff? >>> I always use the file below. I am not sure what the best way to >>> distribute it would be. >> I think there are two reasonable ways: >>