G-Wrap, helping out on the G2 port

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:54:10PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann was heard to remark:
> My question now is: what plans do the GnuCash developers have
> regarding the Guile bindings? I think it the there are two

I can't comment on most of your email, because I almost certainly
won't be doing the port myself; however, two small comments: 

-- please increment the version number correctly when making
   incompatible changes.  g-wrap 1.3.4 is fundametnally 
   incompatible with 1.3.1 but one would never have guessed by 
   looking at the version number.  This made debugging a lot 
   harder than it should have been.

-- I'm concerned about making gnucash depend on *two* packages
   instead of one, which is what it sounds like you are describing.
   The concern is that Guile-GObject might be poorly maintained
   or might go out with wacky version numbers and bugs, leaving 
   us once again scratching our heads as to why a minor upgrade 
   broke something somewhere for thousands of users.

One of the saddest, most annoying aspects of having used 
scheme/guile in general is how minor version changes in these 
packages managed to induce breakage in gnucash.  

--linas


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