Re: anyone define port types?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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 :)

What do you conclude from this poll?  :-)

>From what you’ve seen, how do you think current uses would impact the
refactoring work (and vice versa)?

Thanks,
Ludo’.