Re: GUILE_QUIET: need help with redirection

[tomas]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 10:37:38AM -0700, Matt Wette wrote:

[...]

> Thanks.  All the other internal redirections  to info-port in guile
> are formerly to stderr.  This is the one case where the
> redirection is formerly stdout.  So, I don't like using stdout for
> the exact reason you state above: it is not backward compatible.

Oh, you mean the welcome message was going directly to stdout, while
info-port was always going to stderr?

I see. Perhaps we need yet another port, say `greeting-port' (or even
`welcome-port', although that would sound too whimsical to me [1]),
which would go by default to stdout and can be redirected as needed?

Sounds a bit heavy-handed, but would tick all backwards-compat boxes.

Cheers
[1] Whimsical names, like ice-9 or car come back to haunt you,
   10 or 50 years later.

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tomás

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