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Re: guile-lib changes
From: |
Julian Graham |
Subject: |
Re: guile-lib changes |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:14:28 -0500 |
Hi Andy,
If you wouldn't mind, I'd really like it if you could take a look at
SSAX, re: [1]. I don't have a patch handy, but I can tell you that
the distribution released in 0.1.5 worked, but not the one in 0.1.6.
Regards,
Julian
[1] - https://gna.org/support/?2043
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Guile-libbers,
>
> A few changes in Guile-Lib.
>
> (1) I'm looking at upping the dependency from Guile 1.6 to 1.8, as that
> will let me remove things from Guile-Lib as they are added to 1.8
> and 2.0 (on both branches). An example of this already having
> occurred is SRFI-34 and SRFI-35, both of which are in master and
> 1.8.
>
> (2) I removed (math rationalize), as its core functionality,
> `rationalize', has been in Guile since 1.8.
>
> (3) I removed (container queue), as it was undocumented, and completely
> identical to (ice-9 q) besides some naming. I think the only reason
> that it was in Guile-Lib was because of some ontological
> namespacing crusade that is not really worthwhile IMO. If we are to
> clean up and document some of the code that's in `ice-9', we should
> do so in Guile itself. "Drain the swamp!" :)
>
> (4) I committed the important patches that were in (scheme session) to
> (ice-9 session), on master. I'm waiting for Neil or Ludo to weigh
> in before merging them to 1.8.
>
> (5) I cleaned up all of the licensing blocks, updating GPL and LGPL
> licenses to version 3+, and clarifying which modules were in the
> public domain.
>
> I'll be pushing to savannah as soon as their admins to a final review,
> at which point I'll mail with details regarding the web site, etc.
>
> I'll be rolling a new release soon. Now would be a great time to re-send
> those patches that I lost in the past ;)