Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-98?

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:15:58PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> Even though "getenv" is more widespread, following the SRFI might be
> >> the right way.
> >
> > Agreed.  Perhaps now is a good time to start thinking about some kind of
> > system for ensuring backwards compat, to prevent cruft from accumulating?
> 
> What I usually do is deprecating the old API and making a note somewhere
> to remove the deprecated piece of functionality one or two major releases
> later. Would you suggest a particular sort of process?

Hmm, that sounds just fine, I suppose.  No need to formalize that.
This should probably also have happened with the recently added
'Unit files', I think.

Cheers,
Peter
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