Re: Guile XMMS bindings available

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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:15:28AM -0500, Dave Lambert wrote:
> 
> I've finished bindings allowing Guile to talk to XMMS, the MP3
> (amongst other things) player.  Until I get somewhere permanent set
> up, it will live at:
> 
>         http://guile-simplesql.sourceforge.net/


Cool, but after i succesfully comiled and installed it i got the
following:

  guile> (use-modules (apps xmms))        
  guile: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/libguile-apps-xmms.so.0: undefined 
symbol: scm_protect_object
  bash-2.05$ 

  bash-2.05$ guile -c '(display (version))(newline)'
  1.7.0
  bash-2.05$ 

- Looking at /usr/local/lib/libguile.so:  there's no such function.

- Looking at $GUILE/NEWS:


|  These are just nicer-named old scm_protect_object and
|  scm_unprotect_object.
|  
|  ** Deprecated functions: scm_protect_object, scm_unprotect_object
|   

 
Hmm, since when does 'deprecated' mean 'removed'?????

- Looking  at $GUILE/libguile/ChangeLog:

|  2001-08-31  Dirk Herrmann  <address@hidden>
|         ....
|         SCM_GCCDR), gc.[ch] (scm_remember, scm_protect_object,
|         scm_unprotect_object), modules.c (root_module_lookup_closure,
|         ....
|         Removed.
| 
| 

As much as a like this cleaning-up orgy, i would _really_ apreciate a cleaner
way to find out about such changes. Not having a central file that describes 
the API changes since version nn is a major pain if you need to keep an 
application
on sync with libguile (and not everyone reads guile-devel). From my own 
experiences
i could imagine this will be a dreadfull experience for all the application 
maintainers
out there who need to update once 1.6 is out. 

  Ralf Mattes
  
   
> >From the README:
> 
>         This module provides a set of Guile procedures for controlling
>         XMMS.  It was written because I saw Ian Campbell's rep-xmms
>         bindings for librep/Sawfish and I was jealous :)
> 
> Dave
> -- 
> Any resemblance between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
> 
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