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Re: anyone define port types?


From: Nala Ginrut
Subject: Re: anyone define port types?
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:52:41 +0800

On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 21:04 +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am working on improving our port implementation to take advantage of
> the opportunity to break ABI in 2.2.  I am wondering how much I can
> break C API as well -- there are some changes that would allow better
> user-space threading
> (e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/14158/focus=15463
> or Chris Webber's 8sync).  But those changes would require some
> incompatible changes to the C API related to port internals.  This API
> is pretty much only used when implementing port types.  So, I would like
> to collect a list of people that implement their own ports :) I know
> Guile-GNOME does it for GNOME-VFS, though GNOME-VFS is super-old at this
> point...  Anyway.  Looking forward to your links :)


Fortunately, I haven't do the work for the port, but it's likely to
customize the soft port in the future. If so, I would choose to stick to
2.1+

Best regards.





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