On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Graham Percival
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:03:31PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > As far as I know, 1.9 is the development series culminating in the
> > stable 2.0, so while 1.9 is not all too likely to be installed on
> > current systems, allowing/preferring it over 1.8 is not going to be
> > helpful.  I think the cutoff point should be at 1.9.
>
> Good point.
>
>
I'll make sure to make the change before committing.


> > Do we have an override option for those people who actually want to
> > develop towards 2.0 or are they supposed to edit the autoconf files?
>
> Don't we have a separate branch for guile-2.0?  If not, we should,
> and that branch can change the numbers to "guile 2.0 or higher".
> (or 2.x if we rely on any more recent guile features or bugfixe)
>

One overrides these auto settings in the usual way, setting
GUILE=/path/to/guile etc on the command line. And as you have seen, once we
are ready for guile 2, it's a one-line change in configure.ac

>> Should we document this somewhere?

I think the commit message, pointing to the relevant tracker issue and code
review, should be sufficient.

Cheers,
Julien
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