Hello!
I just discovered undesirable side effects of commit
b5cb4464ca4e23d077a9777bbc17835feb0f4374 "Make multi-byte reads on
unbuffered ports more efficient."
An example application that breaks in the presence of this patch are
"custom binary input ports" (aka. CBIPs [0]) in Guile-R6RS-Libs [1]
Hi Mike, thanks for your response.
2008/11/11 Mike Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If the base Guile C API remains stable, it doesn't matter to me how the
> releases occur, because they won't break my libraries or projects.
OK.
> If the Guile C API needs to change, some sort of notification and bet
2008/11/11 Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Any ideas for binary compatibility for the "micro" revisions?
At our "upstream" level (i.e. not trying to solve all of the
distribution-level issues), I think the theory is that this is covered
by library interface numbering. In other words, if a
> From: Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Mike, thanks for your response.
>
> I would propose, then, that we clearly flag (on the mailing list) an
> API change at the time when the relevant commit is made to the
> repository, and make sure that some minimum period of time elapses
> before t
2008/11/11 Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Your note doesn't take binary compatibility into account, and I think
> it's an important thing, too. I think the ideal is to maintain binary
> compatibility within a major series, as we've done (or tried to do) in
> the 1.8.x series.
(And Andy
2008/11/13 Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> "Linas Vepstas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The patch below fixes a crash during garbage collection, where, during
>> the mark-stack phase, the top and bottom of the stack are found to be
>> in backwards order, typically because scm_wit
2008/11/15 Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/11/11 Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> BTW, we need to consider releasing 1.8.6 one of these days! ;-)
>
> Yes. Do we have any particular more things to get into this? (I
> don't think I have anything.)
I'm seeing frequent and wide-spre
