Hi folks, I've found Guile features called Fluids and Dynamic Contexts. These will allow me to put a real flexible, dynamically extensible configuration mechanism into gEDA that works much more cleanly than the current one does.
BUT: it would be very difficult to do this if the requirement for Guile 1.6
support persists. [1]
Given that Guile 1.8 has been the stable release of Guile for almost two years
now, arguments for *not* dropping Guile 1.6 support in the 1.6.x stable
series of gEDA should be *very* persuasive.
Similarly, I would like to bump the required GTK+ version to *at least* 2.8.0
(released August 2005), as the majority of workarounds currently implemented
are to cope with features introduced in GTK+ 2.6.0.
Regards,
Peter
[1] Specifically, Guile 1.6 does not provide scm_dynwind_begin(),
scm_dynwind_end() or scm_dynwind_fluid(), and I am not prepared to backport
them from Guile 1.8 and maintain them.
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Peter Brett
Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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