Re: [foo-devel] libsndfile

[martin r. <fo...@ru...>]

dear ramon,

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:06:43AM +0100, Ramon Gonzalez-Arroyo wrote:
> download/installation of the GNU system (base and make) as you 
> suggested, following also the steps that Gerhard documents in one of his 
> mails. I have stopped, because the compiler I have is a gcc2.something 
> version, and for all that I read I should better compile with 
> gcc3.whatever. And this is a problem, because I don't want to break 

hmm.  i don't know exactly, but if i remember correctly, i had to
compile the libffcall separately, then compiling gnustep worked on
gcc-2.9x.  but anyway, perhaps no fun...  from gerhards report it
looks like libffcall was necessary with gcc-3.x, too.

> anything and I don't feel very secure. This, stated in a sourceforge 
> devel list, is probably almost a blasphemy (shame on me!) but so is life.

you are a "scheme" developer and therefore that's no sin :-)  perhaps
sourceforge should provide a hardware lisp machine running foo... :-)

> problem I mentioned, which I assigned to libsndfile. So I migrated to 
> fooL-0.0.1. I am interested in keeping alive fooL-0.0.1 because it 
> allows me to run my old code without any changes 
> (sndfile-format/sndfile-type related). Actually I wanted to do the new 

i thought about that, and i think it's worth to keep a way for
compatability with foo-2.1 as much as possible.  i checked in a
next-compat.foo in the listen's foo repository.  if i got everything
correctly it should be possible to retain compatability on the scheme
level.  comments and regions, however, are even not supported on
fooL-0.0.1...  i just changed the signatures for create-soundfile and
make-soundfile.  the default filetype went back to 'snd, which is
changeable in next-compat.foo.  there is an old (synt) macro with the
right number of arguments.  in any case, the default filetype is used.

do you thing that's a way to retain compatability?  would be nice,
since this way you could benefit from the advantages of the new foo
versions (by know just more bugs...) while being able to "process your
former life"...

bests,

martin