Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Thanks for the update! Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org skribis: i'd like to apply the fix myself (in the savannah repo), onto ‘branch_release-1-8’. Yes, please do! Can you apply it to stable-2.0 as well? Sorry, no; i lack sufficient bandwidth. OK, I’ll do it if nobody

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-09-20 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) () Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:24:26 +0200 Looking to move WIKID[0] out of the Guile 1.4.x ghetto (which is pretty cozy, i must say), (Speaking of which, do let me know when rpx has left the ghetto, too. :-)) OK, will do. If the world doesn't end, a

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mike Gran spk...@yahoo.com skribis: The big issues with moving to 2.0 that I've seen expressed are non-portability, I don’t think 2.0 is less portable than 1.8; there’s room for improvement (MinGW, pthread support), but it’s not a disaster either. number of dependencies, There’s are

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Thien-Thi! Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org skribis: Looking to move WIKID[0] out of the Guile 1.4.x ghetto (which is pretty cozy, i must say), (Speaking of which, do let me know when rpx has left the ghetto, too. :-)) i ran into a Guile 1.8 problem. Apparently, ‘send’ gratuitously

Re: 1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Gran
From: Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org I imagine if this particular fix goes smoothly, i will be motivated to continue w/ this kind of maintenance work, where the focus is on continuity and stability (perhaps likewise showing 1.6 and 1.4 some love, as well). Hmm, I’d find it more

1.8 ‘send’ bug + re-engagement

2012-08-24 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
Looking to move WIKID[0] out of the Guile 1.4.x ghetto (which is pretty cozy, i must say), i ran into a Guile 1.8 problem. Apparently, ‘send’ gratuitously demands its MESSAGE arg (a string) be writable. This loses if, e.g., MESSAGE is the result of ‘symbol-string’. Here is the fix: