Re: GUILE_CONFIG

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Dienstag, dem 08.06.2021 um 16:55 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Particularly when compiling Guile-1.8.8 in a local tree (basically still
> the preferred way of creating a distribution), the state is "go figure
> it out on your own".  It's not that the previous state was all that much
> better (it wasn't).  But swapping one undocumented method for another
> (and doing so silently, without any phase where you'd get an error
> message and a proposal how to likely achieve the same goal in a
> different manner, [...]

There was a warning message along with the compatibility code you added
for more than a year, and it remains in stable/2.22 including releases.
IMHO having an error for this case is a very bad idea because it would
trigger whenever there is the variable GUILE_CONFIG set in the user's
environment.

Jonas

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