Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

[tomas]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:44:09AM -0400, Olivier Dion wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024, Lassi Kortela <lassi@lassi.io> wrote:

[...]

> > If the (guile ...) names are adopted, I suggest you keep the existing 
> > (ice-9 ...) libraries indefinitely but no longer advertise them in the 
> > manual.
> 
> I concur.  We can keep ice-9 indefinitely for backward support but also
> because it is a piece of Guile history.  Even when Guile 4 is out, I
> think ice-9 should be kept to ease transition from 3 to 4.  At the same
> time, major version bumping also mean API breakage .. so it might be a
> good opportunity.

To me, this makes most sense.

> However, if a (guile ...) hierarchy is introduced, all mentions to
> ice-9, except the historical note, ought to be removed from the manual.

Well -- perhaps except an explicit mention as a "historical term" (with
index entry) to help people understand/fix old code...

Cheers
-- 
t

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature