From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Release now? Date: 25 Feb 2003 14:34:44 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046180225 21406 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 13:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt 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 18nfGW-0005Yh-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:37:01 +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 18nfGY-0004N7-00 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nfFg-00044j-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:36:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nfFT-0003xQ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.163.1] helo=mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nfEM-0003fV-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.19]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E713CA381D; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:34:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 520) id C9B814108F; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:34:45 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Greg Troxel In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-cc: guile-devel@gnu.org 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:1965 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1965 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? However, a more serious problem exists for external modules of Scheme code that want to use a specific version of Guile. For this, I think we should add versions to our module system. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel