From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Adding to the end of the load path Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:35:13 -0800 Message-ID: <50A12541.1070002@gnu.org> References: <87sj8o20v0.fsf@googlemail.com> <87liecucrz.fsf@delenn.home.rotty.xx.vu> <87wqxs8tom.fsf@tines.lan> <87a9uo7yk5.fsf@delenn.home.rotty.xx.vu> <87390f95ap.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352738129 11942 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2012 16:35:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ian Price , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 17:35:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXwz2-0005rS-8u for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:35:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXwys-0006OS-BR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:35:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXwym-0006OB-Ht for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXwyj-0002Dy-Fq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXwyj-0002Du-Ce for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-99-33-25-17.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([99.33.25.17]:63705 helo=[192.168.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXwyi-0007mF-Dp; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:35:16 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121025 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <87390f95ap.fsf@tines.lan> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15160 Archived-At: On 11/11/12 13:51, Mark H Weaver wrote: > This is certainly the cleanest solution, but there is a complication: if > a user has multiple versions of Guile installed on their system, some of > which look for GUILE_LOAD_PATH_SUFFIX and some which do not, there is no > way for them to configure their environment variables that will work > correctly for all versions. Guile 2.0.5 will be widely deployed until > at least 2017, since it is part of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We have to cope > with that somehow. Declare Guile 2.0.5 to be buggy and recommend Ubuntu/Debian to upgrade with a patch that fixes the LD_LIBRARY_PATH/*_LOAD_PATH stuff? > What do you think? Maybe a 2.0.5.1 release that just fixes this bit and fold it into the main branch, too.