Re: Issues holding up 1.6.0 release.

[Rob Browning]

Gary Houston <address@hidden> writes:

> It's a dirty solution, but would probably work.  I've just looked at
> the relevant Guppi code again.  I'm not really sure what it's trying
> to achieve: probably preventing continuations from bypassing C code
> that doesn't use dynamic-wind.  In that case with-reentry-barrier
> doesn't help.

I that that's more or less it.

>> i.e. Do we have a consensus that we should wait until post 1.6 to try
>> and create a no-unwind/rewind version?
>
> If you and I agree and nobody else says anything, it's a consensus :-)

OK.  I'll use the new SCM_VERSION, etc. macros (I guess I'll rename
them to take out the _GUILE_ so they'll match our other names), in
guppi to select the appropriate patch.

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Rob Browning
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