Re: Emacs and Guile

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
() Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:29:26 +0300

   So not only there is a "trivial problem", but also there are
   still significant changes between Guile 1.8 and 2.0.  These are
   all signs of immaturity IMO.

I think it's more a sign of the prevalent development culture.
More time will not bring less differences as the primary Guile
hackers do not focus on bridging those differences, so maturity
in that sense can never arrive.

What Guile 2.0 needs (especially for a realistic shot at Emacs
integration), is for Someone apart from the primary Guile hackers
to curate the 1.8 branch, applying bugfixes, doc upgrades, and
design shims, all to increase the sense of continuity perceived
by client code.  By side effect of the design shims, quirks in
both 1.8 and 2.0, as well as regressions in 2.0, will be easily
identified and (perhaps less easily) abstracted.  This is the
process that will help bring maturity.

Absent that, i would agree that jumping directly to a rebase of
Emacs onto Guile 2.0 is fraught w/ the wrong kind of excitement.