For a long time the API failed to reach consensus among maintainers.
See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-11/msg00005.html>
and <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2014-04/msg00069.html>.
This revert intends to break the deadlock and help further discussion to
take place with less pressure.
* libguile/foreign-object.c, libguile/foreign-object.h: Remove.
* libguile/Makefile.am (libguile_@GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION@_la_SOURCES)
(modinclude_HEADERS): Adjust accordingly.
* libguile/init.c (scm_i_init_guile): Remove call to
'scm_register_foreign_object'.
* libguile.h: Remove inclusion of "libguile/foreign-object.h".
* module/system/foreign-object.scm: Remove.
* module/Makefile.am (SYSTEM_SOURCES): Adjust accordingly.
* test-suite/standalone/test-foreign-object-c.c,
test-suite/standalone/test-foreign-object-scm: Remove.
* test-suite/standalone/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS, check_PROGRAMS)
(TESTS): Adjust accordingly.
(test_foreign_object_c_SOURCES, test_foreign_object_c_CFLAGS)
(test_foreign_object_c_LDADD): Remove.
* doc/ref/libguile-foreign-objects.texi: Remove.
* doc/ref/api-foreign-objects.texi: Remove.
* doc/ref/libguile-smobs.texi: New file.
* doc/ref/Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Adjust accordingly.
* doc/ref/api-control.texi, doc/ref/api-smobs.texi,
doc/ref/api-utility.texi, doc/ref/guile.texi,
doc/ref/libguile-concepts.texi, doc/ref/libguile-program.texi:
Revert d9a4a1cd and 6e4630e0.
* libguile.h:
* libguile/Makefile.am:
* libguile/deprecated.h:
* libguile/deprecated.c:
* libguile/init.c:
* libguile/properties.c:
* libguile/properties.h: Deprecate the "primitive properties"
interface. It was only used to implement object properties, and that
is no longer the case.
* module/ice-9/boot-9.scm (make-object-property): Reimplement just in
terms of weak hash tables, and make threadsafe.
* NEWS:
* doc/ref/api-utility.texi: Update.
* libguile/foreign.h:
* libguile/foreign.c: New files, implementing simple wrappers around
foreign values, such as those that one might link in dynamically from
a library.
* libguile/tags.h (scm_tc7_foreign): Take a tc7 for foreign values.
* libguile.h:
* libguile/init.c: Add foreign.h to headers and init.
* libguile/print.c (iprin1): Add printer for foreign values.
* libguile/gc.c (scm_i_tag_name): Case for foreign values.
* libguile/goops.c (scm_class_of, create_standard_classes): Add a class
for foreign values.
* libguile/evalext.c (scm_self_evaluating_p): Add case for foreign
values.
* libguile/Makefile.am: Add foreign.[ch] to the build.
* libguile.h:
* libguile/Makefile.am
* libguile/init.c (scm_i_init_guile): Add trees.[ch] to the build.
* libguile/eval.c:
* libguile/eval.h: Remove scm_copy_tree and scm_cons_source...
* libguile/trees.h:
* libguile/trees.c:
* libguile/srcprop.h:
* libguile/srcprop.c: ... factoring them out here and here,
respectively.
* test-suite/tests/eval.test ("memoization"): Change expected exception
for circular data structures, given new copy-tree location.
* libguile/Makefile.am:
* libguile/vectors.c:
* libguile/vectors.h:
* libguile/generalized-vectors.c:
* libguile/generalized-vectors.h: Move generic vector ops off into their
own file too. The implementation is now based on the generic
array-handle infrastructure.
* libguile.h:
* libguile/array-map.c:
* libguile/bitvectors.c:
* libguile/random.c:
* libguile/srfi-4.c: Update includers.
* libguile/arrays.h:
* libguile/arrays.c:
* libguile/generalized-arrays.h:
* libguile/generalized-arrays.c: Move some generic functionality out of
arrays.c to a new file.
* libguile/array-map.c:
* libguile/deprecated.c:
* libguile/init.c: Update includers.
