Peter TB Brett wrote: > 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.
I updated guile to 1.8.x in NetBSD's pkgsrc last june so I have no real complaints about moving to a newer guile. > 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. Why 2.8.0 if the features were introduced in 2.6.0? One of the machines which is doing pcb autobuilds has 2.4.x and it seems to build both pcb and gerbv correctly. As far as gerbv, there is just one workaround for using 2.4 instead of 2.6. I think with pcb there are some workarounds for older than 2.8 versions. I don't have any real problems with moving to 2.8 though. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
