From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1.8 status Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:00:39 -0700 Message-ID: <87hd0h36g8.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155423652 28231 80.91.229.2 (12 Aug 2006 23:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 01:00:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GC2TH-0003LB-IL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:00:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GC2TG-0003wQ-UT for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GC2TE-0003sU-6i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GC2TD-0003qO-BD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GC2TD-0003pn-6D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GC2Yf-0007kH-Av for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A32C90D2B; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C1D23D3C; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 789C2355190; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Greg Troxel User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6024 Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > 1.8.0 seems to now be pretty old, and a diff of the head of > branch_release-1-8 against release_1-8-0 (-Nu) gives 6088 lines, of > which 2857 are new (ignorning hierarchy.pdf). > > The slib bug fix appears not to be present on the 1.8 branch, but I'm > not quite sure - it seems only to be on the 1.6 branch, and not on > HEAD. Right. The problem is that things have changed in 1.8, and we still haven't worked out the right way to handle SLIB. The solution will almost certainly look a lot like the one in 1.6, but we also need to make sure the upstream guile.init is appropriate for 1.8. I've been talking with Aubrey Jaffer about this, but we've been going fairly slowly. The lack of SLIB support is one of the reasons that I haven't uploaded 1.8 packages for Debian yet. I was hoping to wait until we had gotten that worked out, but I've decided to just go ahead, so I should be uploading 1.8 packages within about a week or so. > Is it currently reasonable to use 1.8.0? It seems there's been a lot > of work on the branch, and that probably a 1.8.1 is in order. I'm planning to release 1.8.0 in Debian, but I'll add patches when they're needed. I will probably be fairly conservative, though. So far, the only patch I know is going in is one to fix the numbers.test failure. > Does any know of any problems with any of them with 1.8? In > particular, do gnucash and lilypond work with 1.8.0? I think lilypond probably does. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel