Re: Better support for transition to guile-1.6

[Richard Guenther]

On 4 Oct 2001, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The guile-1.6 release will be a real pain for many application
> developers.
> 2. Many application developers will want not just to upgrade to
>    guile-1.6 but *maintain backward compatibility* with older Guile
>    releases.  This will cause every application programmer to invent
>    the wheel in parallel.

This is the more important point and I support the request to delay
1.6 until a easy solution to this problem is available. Until 1.6 hits
a stable debian release many developers need to maintain backward
compatibility.

Richard.

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