[dev-serveez] future of Guile (GH -> SCM)

[stefan]

Hello list,

  the recent bigger changes within the Guile part of Serveez are due to
the fact that the Guile people consider the gh_*() functions which were
the C interface to Guile in the last releases to be deprecated and plan to
drop it somewhen.  That is why they supply a "transitioning guide" at
<http://www.glug.org/docbits/guile-doc-out/html/guile-1.7.0/guile_17.html#SEC135>.
I tried to follow these instructions and now there are very few gh_*()
functions left in Serveez.  Moreover I made some compatibility definitions
for backward compatibility to the Guile 1.3.2, 1.3.4 and 1.4 versions.

At last I am going to consider the Guile servers to be a stable feature of
Serveez.  The Mandelbrot server works like charme; even with a Guile
1.3.2 installation.

Cheers,
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