Re: address@hidden: dynamic loading of native code modules]

[Rob Browning]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> we can make incompatibilities non-gratuituous by reflecting them in the
> version numbering (more "descriptive" thinking here).  by this method,
> the next official guile should be "2.x" -- what do people think of that?

Not sure I follow what you mean by "by this method".

IMO we should bump the major version to 2.0 whenever we made changes
that we feel warrant it.  Things I would consider warranting such a
change:

  - Restructuring of the evaluation system and macros so that we can
    add compilation (and by compilation I mean anything like VM, JIT,
    offline->c, whatever).

  - Support for elisp that's ready for public use.

  - Performance improvement of large factors due to overhaul of XYZ.

  - Full numeric tower.

etc.

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Rob Browning
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