Re: api differences between 1.4 and 1.6

[Marius Vollmer]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

>     Dirk> We have, up to now, not begun to change all the definitions
>     Dirk> accordingly.  From time to time, some definitions are
>     Dirk> renamed that way.  If we did it consequently (like, in a
>     Dirk> cleanup session), we would even find that in many of the
>     Dirk> cases it would be sufficient to remove the definitions from
>     Dirk> the headers and use static definitions in the corresponsing
>     Dirk> c files instead.  The biggest part of the work is to search
>     Dirk> through all definitions in the header files and decide,
>     Dirk> which of the definitions should be part of the API and which
>     Dirk> shouldn't.
> 
> Right.  I agree that this is the way to go, and I think we could do
> this cleanup even during 1.5/1.6, since the things that will change
> are, by definition, internal.
>
> Marius - can you OK this?

It is OK, but it is not that important.  We should concentrate all
significant improvements into the 1.7 series and aim for a quick 1.8
release instead of putting a lot of work into both 1.6 and 1.7.

> The patch below begins the process by getting rid of all the C names
> in doc/guile-api.alist (stable branch) that begin with something other
> than `coop_', `gdb_', `gh_' or `scm_'.  Is it OK to commit it?

Yes.