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diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 13d4792..37dd677 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -7,10 +7,15 @@ absinthe, etc.  However, the first release containing the module
 system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting
 for."
 
-Before releasing the next version of libguile which is not binary compatible
-with the one released with 1.4:
-- remove struct members system_transformer and top_level_lookup_closure_var
-  from struct scm_root_state in root.h.
+* Remove compatability module (ice-9 and-let*) eventually (when a
+  major release with the real module (ice-9 and-let-star) has been out
+  long enough, probably release 1.6).
+
+* Deprecate `read-only-string?'.
+
+After signal handling and threading have been fixed:
+- remove the code corresponding to GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK and the corresponding
+  GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK macro.
 
 In release 1.5:
 - remove deprecated macros: SCM_INPORTP, SCM_OUTPORTP, SCM_CRDY, SCM_ICHRP,
@@ -32,6 +37,59 @@ In release 1.5:
 - remove deprecated types, functions and macros from numbers.h:  scm_dblproc,
   SCM_UNEGFIXABLE, SCM_FLOBUFLEN, SCM_INEXP, SCM_CPLXP, SCM_REAL, SCM_IMAG,
   SCM_REALPART, scm_makdbl, SCM_SINGP, SCM_NUM2DBL, SCM_NO_BIGDIG
+- remove deprecated macro from tags.h: SCM_DOUBLE_CELLP
+
+In release 1.6:
+- remove support for autoloading compiled-code modules:
+    try-module-linked
+    try-module-dynamic-link
+    init-dynamic-module
+    scm_register_module_xxx
+    etc.
+- remove deprecated variables:
+    scm_top_level_lookup_closure_var
+- remove deprecated functions:
+    eval.c: scm_eval2, scm_eval_3
+    load.c: scm_read_and_eval_x
+    smob.c: scm_make_smob_type_mfpe, scm_set_smob_mfpe
+    gc.c: scm_remember
+    string.c: scm_makstr
+- remove deprecated procedures:
+    boot-9.scm:eval-in-module
+- remove deprecated macros: SCM_OUTOFRANGE, SCM_NALLOC, SCM_HUP_SIGNAL, 
+  SCM_INT_SIGNAL, SCM_FPE_SIGNAL, SCM_BUS_SIGNAL, SCM_SEGV_SIGNAL, 
+  SCM_ALRM_SIGNAL, SCM_GC_SIGNAL, SCM_TICK_SIGNAL, SCM_SIG_ORD, 
+  SCM_ORD_SIG, SCM_NUM_SIGS, SCM_SLOPPY_STRINGP, SCM_VALIDATE_STRINGORSUBSTR,
+  SCM_FREEP, SCM_NFREEP, SCM_CHARS, SCM_UCHARS, SCM_VALIDATE_ROSTRING,
+  SCM_VALIDATE_ROSTRING_COPY, SCM_VALIDATE_NULLORROSTRING_COPY, SCM_ROLENGTH,
+  SCM_LENGTH, SCM_HUGE_LENGTH, SCM_SUBSTRP, SCM_SUBSTR_STR, SCM_SUBSTR_OFFSET,
+  SCM_COERCE_SUBSTR, SCM_ROSTRINGP, SCM_RWSTRINGP, SCM_VALIDATE_RWSTRING,
+  SCM_ROCHARS, SCM_ROUCHARS, SCM_SETLENGTH, SCM_SETCHARS, SCM_LENGTH_MAX,
+  SCM_GC8MARKP, SCM_SETGC8MARK, SCM_CLRGC8MARK, SCM_GCTYP16, SCM_GCCDR,
+  SCM_SUBR_DOC, SCM_OPDIRP, SCM_VALIDATE_OPDIR, SCM_WTA, RETURN_SCM_WTA,
+  SCM_WNA, SCM_FUNC_NAME, SCM_VALIDATE_NUMBER_COPY,
+  SCM_VALIDATE_NUMBER_DEF_COPY
+- remove scm_vector_set_length_x
+- remove function scm_call_catching_errors
+  (replaced by catch functions from throw.[ch])
+- remove support for "#&" reader syntax in (ice-9 optargs).
+- remove scm_make_shared_substring
+- remove scm_read_only_string_p
+- remove scm_strhash
+- remove scm_tc7_ssymbol
+- remove scm_tc7_msymbol
+- remove scm_tcs_symbols
+- remove scm_sloppy_memq, scm_sloppy_memv, scm_sloppy_member
+- consider removing the automatic loading of (ice-9 rdelim) when guile
+  starts up.  This would be a brave move, since a lot of code will
+  assume that read-line is available by default.  However it would make
+  it easier to use alternative implementations of this module, e.g., a
+  strictly scsh-compatible version which uses multiple values.  For
+  interactive use it would be easy to load the module in ~/.guile.
+- remove scm_close_all_ports_except
+- remove scm_strprint_obj
+- remove SCM_CONST_LONG
+- remove scm_wta
 
 Modules sort.c and random.c should be factored out into separate
 modules (but still be distributed with guile-core) when we get a new