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Re: First look at Guile Std Library available
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: First look at Guile Std Library available |
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Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:39:49 -0500 |
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Richard Todd <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's standard practice to stay compatible along minor version
> numbers, and OK to break backwards compatibility across major
> version numbers.
...
> What do you think of (std ...) => (std2 ...) as a means of letting
> older code run forever?
It's doubtful that incompatible changes will happen to all modules in
this collection all at the same time. Coercing them all into a single
version number/compatibility schedule doesn't seem helpful.
> Can it be that only Java/Python/Perl/Ruby need logging services, and
> scheme does not?
I don't think syslog is a good idea regardless of the language. It's
more flexible to print logs to stdout/stderr; then it's easy to choose
another program to add to the pipeline for filtering and storing the
logs.
> I have said, and do believe, that it would be good to have a single
> library that provides the baseline infrastructure for doing useful
> work.
As long as the code exists, I don't think there's much benefit in
aggregating it. It just has to be easy for users to find.
Of course, all this applies to all software, not just Guile modules.
So I think a Guile-only solution would be wasted effort. We'd be
better off with language-independent version management and a software
directory that could be filtered and searched to find, e.g., a Guile
SMTP library. slashpackage would be a good place to start.
<URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html>
paul
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, (continued)
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Richard Todd, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Robert Uhl, 2004/01/05
- number->string radix patch (Was Re: First look at Guile Std Library available), Richard Todd, 2004/01/06
- Re: number->string radix patch (Was Re: First look at Guile Std Library available), Robert Uhl, 2004/01/07
- Re: number->string radix patch (Was Re: First look at Guile Std Library available), Richard Todd, 2004/01/07
- Re: number->string radix patch (Was Re: First look at Guile Std Library available), Robert Uhl, 2004/01/07
- I get unknown immediate error in guile 1.7, Roland Orre, 2004/01/08
- Re: I get unknown immediate error in guile 1.7, Roland Orre, 2004/01/08
- Re: I get unknown immediate error in guile 1.7, Kevin Ryde, 2004/01/10
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Dale Mellor, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available,
Paul Jarc <=
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Richard Todd, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Paul Jarc, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Ludovic Courtès, 2004/01/06
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Richard Todd, 2004/01/06
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Andy Wingo, 2004/01/22
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Richard Todd, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Dale P. Smith, 2004/01/05
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/01/06
- Re: First look at Guile Std Library available, Richard Todd, 2004/01/06