Re: Guile release planning

2008-11-18 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Mon 17 Nov 2008 00:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> And I assume the actually loaded libguile was version 1.8.5? So there >> should have been something in the library saying that it needed 1.8.3, >> which would have caused the link to fail. Does the libtool scheme >> co

Re: Using define in multiple threads?

2008-11-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andy Wingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon 17 Nov 2008 15:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> Besides, as Linas noted, the hash table implementation isn't >> thread-safe, which makes it "unsafe" to `define' in parallel. > > Ah, this is why, then. I was baffled. > > IMO this is

Re: Guile release planning

2008-11-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Andy Wingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Beating a dead horse, 1.8.5 should be compatible with 1.8.3, via > whatever mechanism. (The actual problem in this case was elsewhere.) 1.8.5 *is* compatible with 1.8.x. > I am skeptical of pushing significant changes into stable branches. I > really