Re: GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED

[Neil Jerram]

David Pirotte wrote:
> here it is:
>
>         `scm_sysintern0' is deprecated. Use `scm_define' instead.
>         `scm_protect_object' is deprecated. Use `scm_gc_protect_object' instead.
>
> but i know that it comes from :use-module (database postgres), which is a
> kind of obsolate version, deliberatly used until i have time to upgrade
> to a more recent version of it.

Fair enough - I wanted to be sure that the warnings weren't from before 
your (setenv ...) code.

> the question i had is more related to why is the variable
> GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED only 'working' when manually set and not when
> set within the guile program itself?
>
> as i said, i'd like to recieve the deprecated info only when i set a *debug*
> variable, but my users shouldn't see anything

I'm afraid I don't know the proper answer here.  However, you could work 
around this by wrapping your program in a shell script (which sets 
GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED and then execs the actual program).  Would that help?

        Neil