From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Release now? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:47:06 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lm01jt0l.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87of50tdcz.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cmbpyij.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cm9oe9k.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87r89tlf07.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87isv5leom.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cm9lcg2.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046382493 31838 80.91.224.249 (27 Feb 2003 21:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oVsw-0008HD-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oVsI-0007LS-06 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oVs1-0007LG-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:47:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oVrw-0007KL-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:47:13 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oVrv-0007KB-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B6A13C4D; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:47:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF935D4EFD; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:47:06 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Greg Troxel In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "27 Feb 2003 15:54:23 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2009 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2009 Greg Troxel 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 rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, 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://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel