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Backward compatibility status
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Backward compatibility status |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:29:35 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
A number of Guile-using applications and libraries are tested against
the latest 1.9 release, using a recent stable release:
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/guile2test/with-status
As you can see, there’s a lot of red crosses, but you can help! :-)
Here’s a summary of the reasons of these build failures:
| Name | Cause
|
|---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------|
| autogen-5.9.8, beast-0.7.1 [1], | GH
|
| drgeo-1.1.0, gnucash-2.2.9 [2], | GH
|
| texmacs-1.0.7 [3] trackballs-1.1.4 | GH
|
| guile-cairo-1.4.0, guile-gnome-2.16.1 | depends on guile-lib
|
| guile-lib-0.1.6 | `define-macro-with-docs'
|
| g-wrap-1.9.13 | guile-lib, `scm_closure',
`scm_add_method' |
| lilypond-2.13.9 | `scm_internal_hash_fold' &
`scm_t_hash_fold_fn' |
| mailutils-2.1, dico-2.0 [4] | `SCM_IM_*', `SCM_RESET_DEBUG_MODE',
etc. |
| mcron-1.0.4 | invalid `configure' check
|
| snd-9.4 | `scm_i_procedure_arity'
|
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598490
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598491
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.texmacs.devel/4006
[4] http://mail.gnu.org.ua/mailman/listarchive/bug-dico/2010-01/msg00000.html
Note how much GH is still used...
I think we should make the transition as smooth as we reasonably can.
To that end, you can take action in one of the following areas:
1. See whether/how backward compatibility can be retained for each of
these.
2. Document how people are expected to transition away from the
deprecated APIs, possibly provided Coccinelle semantic patches for
C-level changes (see http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
3. Contact application/library developers and help them transition
to 2.0.
If you know of other apps/libraries worth testing, please let me know.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
- Backward compatibility status,
Ludovic Courtès <=