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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release now?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:47:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lm01jt0l.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmin0khzbpc.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (Greg Troxel's message of "27 Feb 2003 15:54:23 -0500")

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

> {list: I have received no hate mail for ranting so I presume this is
> welcome; feel free to tell me otherwise!}

Well I'm interested, so don't worry about it :>

> There are 2 parallel worlds, one rooted on glib 1.2, and one on
> glib-2.0.  This indeed doesn't scale, but it's the underlying
> interface changes that break compiling that don't scale.  But it
> isn't quite that bad, since in the guile world one would have the
> last guile-gtk version that worked with guile 14, and one that works
> with 16.  Then there is gnome-guile that does glib2/gtk2/ORBit2, and
> probably that would be built for the new guile only.

Ahh, ok, thx.  One of the more aggravating questions which we've
already discussed to death here and on debian-devel, is how do I
handle allowing people to build the current version of g-wrap for
either guile 1.4 or guile 1.6 -- i.e. unless I embed the guile version
in g-wrap's libs' names (or the sonames), then there's no way to pick
a "correct" soname.

> Perhaps this is all a red herring and we can preserve compile-time
> compatibility adequately.  Keeping the old libs around seems to be a
> good solution for running old binaries.  In the specific case of
> Gnucash, what about 1.6 made gnucash 1.6.8 not buildable, and was that
> something that wasn't deprecated in 1.4?  We may be solving the wrong
> problem.

AFAIK gnucash just needed to be ported/updated.  I actually did that
work some time back for another project, but I don't think I preserved
the ability to use both guile 1.4 and guile 1.6, and at the time I
believe that would have been a problem.  I haven't been involved much
with gnucash lately, so I don't know where they actually stand on that
front, and unfortunately I don't think I have those changes anymore.
However, as far as I recall, I got gnucash working fine with guile
1.5.X.

-- 
Rob Browning
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-27 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-24 12:37 Release now? Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-02-24 13:08 ` Dale P. Smith
2003-02-24 13:21   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-02-24 13:32 ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-25 13:34   ` Marius Vollmer
2003-02-25 16:08     ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-25 18:38       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-26  1:51         ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-26  2:27           ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 14:25             ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 15:21               ` pkg-config support for guile Greg Troxel
2003-03-22 23:31                 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-04-23 21:22                   ` Greg Troxel
2003-05-16 23:21                     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-02-27 16:54               ` Release now? Rob Browning
2003-02-27 18:07                 ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 18:45                   ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:25                     ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 20:14                       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:06                 ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:13                   ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:36                     ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 20:02                       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 20:54                         ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 21:07                           ` Dale P. Smith
2003-02-27 21:30                             ` Dale P. Smith
2003-02-27 21:47                           ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-04-25 19:26                           ` Neil Jerram
2003-02-25 16:28     ` Andreas Rottmann
2003-02-24 18:35 ` Rob Browning
2003-02-25 13:20 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-03 14:06   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-04-25 19:28   ` Neil Jerram
2003-04-25 22:59     ` Marius Vollmer

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