Re: Guile XMMS bindings available

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 address@hidden wrote:

> - 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'?????
[...]
> 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. 

The lines above belong to the NEWS section "Changes since Guile
1.4".  Since you are using guile 1.7.0, you are using the version of guile
that is on the development branch.  In the stable branch (1.6.x) the
functions are still available (deprecated, that is).

Anyway, I have added a NEWS entry listing all definitions that have been
removed since the stable branch - at least all that I could find in the
Changelog.  However, in the NEWS section "Changes since Guile 1.4" there
is an entry "** Deprecated features have been removed."  Probably we
should be more explicit here as well.

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann