From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Rottmann Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Release now? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:28:19 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lm0472ak.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046191114 9130 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 16:38:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Greg Troxel 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 18ni6B-0002Mp-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:38:31 +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 18ni5w-0004xl-01 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ni5B-0004ta-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:37:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nhzx-0002WW-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl-152-239.utaonline.at ([62.218.152.239] helo=alice.rhinosaur.lan) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nhwt-00012r-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from andy by alice.rhinosaur.lan with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18nhwJ-0003KP-00; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:28:19 +0100 Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: (Marius Vollmer's message of "25 Feb 2003 14:34:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: Mikael Djurfeldt 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:1970 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1970 Marius Vollmer writes: > Greg Troxel writes: > >> I'm all for shorter intervals between releases, but it would be good >> to make sure that packages expecting 1.6 can work with 1.8 (modulo >> insisting on a specific version when it isn't necessary, which is easy >> to patch). > > Yes, we definitely need to be able to have two versions of Guile > installed with the same prefix and have them be usable for running > programs. However, I don't think we need to make special arrangements > for being able to compile against two versions of Guile at the same > time. Having to use different prefices for the two versions seems > acceptable to me. > > Would pkg-config address this issue? I.e. could one say `guile-config > --use-version 1.6 link` (or something similar) with the effect that > the right '-L' and '-R' options are spit out? > If you talk of pkg-config[0], you could easily have this by simply installing two .pc files (named for example, guile-1.6.pc and guile-1.8.pc) in $(prefix)/lib/pkgconfig. You'd then call `pkg-config --libs guile-1.6' to get the right -L and -R options... Regards, Andy [0] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ -- Andreas Rottmann | Dru@ICQ | 118634484@ICQ | a.rottmann@gmx.at http://www.8ung.at/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://www.8ung.at/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel