On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 03:40 +0100, Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz wrote: > > Hi Diane, > > On Mon, Jun 13 2022, Diane Trout wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was working on updating the Debian package of geiser and sometime > > between now and the 0.10, the language specific support modules got > > split out into separate modules. > > > > I was wondering how closely the geisier and gesier-language package > > versions should match? Do they need to exactly match or do you > > think > > there's a reasonable chance close versions could work together? > > There should be a pretty reasonable chance; at least that's the > goal. I > am the main developer of the core and guile modules, and some others > (mit, chibi) are simple enough that i can keep them updated, up to a > point at least. So my idea is that one can interpret the geiser > version > a module depends on as a minimum version requirement, meaning "this > or > better". That said, for complex implementations like chicken's or > gambit's i cannot guarantee that in the future they'll keep working > like
:) who can guarantee anything with software, especially keeping with interfaces compatible. I just wanted to be a bit cautious since the language modules were all split out from a single project I wasn't sure if they should be considered tightly coupled or not. > that (i know for instance that Chicken is broken for some Chicken > versions already) besides Guile's. Oh, and it's perhaps worth > mentioning that i'm no longer maintaining Racket (even though i was > its > main developer): i consider geiser-racket superseded by racket-mode > (as > i think does the Racket community since quite a while), so maybe > packing > it is not worth your while unless someone steps up as a new > maintainer > for it. Thank you for that hint! > > Many thanks for taking care of this (debian has always been my > distribution of choice, so i'm very happy to see packages for geiser > in > there) and please let me know if i can be of further assistance. > Thank you for your help, your response, and and working on neat emacs modules. Diane
