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jae@laden.ilk.de writes: > > >>>>> "Maciej" =3D=3D Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes: > > Maciej> My only objection is that it would require a lot of apps to do > a fair > Maciej> bit of work to work with Guile 1.3 all at the last minute; my > general > Maciej> opinion is that changes of this sort should happen earlier in > the > Maciej> release cycle. > > Uhhm... when you think about it, now *is* the best time for doing > it... because of the very reasons you state for *not* doing it. Every > app that changes adapts to 1.3 (from 1.2, I presume) has to do quite a > bit of work (right?) anyway... > This is kind of a moot point now, but: No, a lot of apps have been using autoconf to work with either 1.2 or the snapshots, so they are already 1.3-ready. Since tracking snapshots is not as demanded by users as tracking formal releases, if the name gets changed now, post-1.3, apps can convert more or less at their leisure instead of being forced to do so all of a sudden. - Maciej