Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN in production

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 08:04:17PM +0200, "Jörg F. Wittenberger" wrote:
> In this particular case I will be forced to decide my priorities: I'm 
> sitting on some improvements and threading fixes and cleanups I've been 
> talking about on once about a time.  Currently I'm busy documenting 
> other things.  That's why you did not see patches yet. But I'd really 
> love to feed them back into mainline chicken.
> 
> Breaking out the scheduler might be helpful with this.  But changing the 
> meaning of strings would force me to change a huge amount of dependent 
> source to even be able to merge my changes back.  That would easily 
> delay these things further.
> 
> Could we refine this "forbid NUL in strings" weaken to "deprecating NUL 
> in strings" until the next major version please.

Thanks for speaking up, I hadn't considered how big of a problem this
would be for large, existing projects.  We could possibly make it a
runtime option, so the checking (or just the enforcing) could be enabled
or disabled at will.

Cheers,
Peter
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