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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile 2.x and `pkg-config'
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ab24lkvs.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a80spl8.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:24:19 +0200")

Hi,

On Sun 09 Aug 2009 22:24, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> A recent thread on `guile-user' [0] raises an important concern: what
> should we do with `guile-1.8.pc' when 2.x is out?

IMO, guile-1.8.pc is only provided by the guile-1.8 package. 1.8 and 2.0
are parallel-installable. Technically, we should be installing
guile-2.0.pc now.

> How about shipping `guile-1.8.pc' for compatibility, along with
> `guile.pc' (which would then become the Right One), both with
> "Version: 2.0"?

I think this is a bad idea. Only Guile 1.8 should claim to be Guile 1.8.

Packages that can compile against either need to select their version in
their configure.ac. GStreamer-depending apps did this successfully in
their transitions (0.{6,8,10}).

See http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html.

Regards,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-09 20:24 Guile 2.x and `pkg-config' Ludovic Courtès
2009-08-09 21:41 ` Greg Troxel
2009-08-12 22:36 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2009-08-13 22:02   ` Neil Jerram

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