On 08/28/2012 08:17 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: > The update to guile-2.x has been blocked for almost 1.5 years now: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678238 > > Long story short, existing programs are not ready to use guile-2.x, while > newer > versions of aiselriot (part of GNOME) need it. Creating a compat-guile or a > guile2 package can be one way forward. > > What do you think? Would be good to get this resolved finally. > > Thanks, > Debarshi >
I've been trying to patch some of the apps to compile with guile-2.x some time ago. Some of them compile, some of them even run.. With my limited knowledge of the guile API, I haven't finished all of them though. The good thing is that the upstream is very active and very willing to help. I think that installing both versions in parallel (if possible) is a good way to go, but then the old programs won't ever get patched:) IMO the best way would be some kind of a compatibility layer in guile itself, but I don't think that's worth the trouble and the net gain for the upstream. -- Jan Synacek Software Engineer, BaseOS team Brno, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
