On Apr 4, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Sunday 4 April 2010, Geert Janssens wrote: >> Coming back to an old thread... see >> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2010-March/027641.html >> >> The thread indicates that if our own sfri's are not pulled in when building >> against guile 1.6, they can be safely removed from our source. >> >> The only platform that is still using guile 1.6 is Windows. (I tried moving >> the windows build to guile 1.8.x but failed. I have given up on that >> attempt for now). > I realize this statement is not 100% accurate. Debian Lenny still builds > GnuCash with guile 1.6.8. I have no way to test if our own srfi's are pulled > on that platform. I assume not, since 1.6.8 is also the guile version on > Windows. > > In any case, I still think the srfi's can be removed, because guile 1.8.x is > also readily available on lenny. So if guile 1.6 would cause any issues the > lenny packager could simply choose to build the gnucash 2.3+ against 1.8. >
I think they can too. The problem is that we officially support guile 1.6.0., and I wasn't able to get that to build so I couldn't check that the gnucash srfis aren't pulled in. If we update the minimum guile version to 1.6.7, we can very safely remove the srfis. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
