> Cool! ;-) > > The trick is to extend it in a backward-compatible way as much as > possible. But now that we have hygiene and `use-syntax' has been > sort-of phased out (Andy?), that should be doable. > > Perhaps we could create a branch so that you could experiment things?
*Urk* You didn't mean me, did you? I have to confess, I'm totally at a loss as to how we're going to make versioning work with the autoload system. Maybe we could discuss a little first? In particular, I see some difficulty in terms of determining whether to fully load and evaluate a module form during search. My understanding is that, in general terms, the existing system does the following: 1. Checks the set of registered modules 2. Locates a candidate module based on filename and loads it 3. Re-checks the set of registered modules Is that more or less accurate? The main assumption here is, I think, that the first file matching the module specifier will contain the definition of the desired module. Based on our discussion of ways of representing version [1], that may no longer hold. Regards, Julian [1] - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/8172
