Re: Dybvig's syntax-case --- (ice-9 syncase) --- removed

[Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>]

Actually, my reasoning started to smell fishy here, so I called
Stallman to get the official scoop.  If something's a library written
to be used with things other than Guile, and Guile is just using it,
then it's okay to incorporate it into Guile, assuming the distribution
terms are compatible with the FSF's goals.

I don't see any problem with the syntax-case terms, so I'm putting it
back.

Sorry for the chaos.  I guess I'm rushing this a bit.




> I'm very sorry about this, but I can't include this code in the Guile
> release.  I realize that people are using this module, and I apologize
> to them for breaking their code.  The mistake was mine, not Mikael's;
> I should not have allowed this to be integrated into the Guile core
> back in August 1997.
> 
> I encourage someone to package this up as a separate distribution.
> I'll happily include it on ftp.red-bean.com.
> 
> 
> >From NEWS:
> 
> ** Syntax-case, present in the snapshots, is absent from this release.
> 
> syntax-case is a powerful hygenic macro-expansion facility designed
> and implemented by R. Kent Dybvig, Oscar Waddell, Bob Hieb, Carl
> Bruggeman at Indiana University.  Some Guile snapshots included this
> macro expander as a Guile module, but we cannot distribute it, because
> the authors have not assigned the code's copyright to the Free
> Software Foundation.
> 
> However, it would be fine to distribute this as a separate package,
> which users can download and install separately.  I hope someone
> produces such a package.