From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: CRLF0710 <crlf0710@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:00:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oc3zg6fl.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikDmNHEGeKGdEx_y2wt4r4-q-MynQ@mail.gmail.com> (CRLF's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:15:42 +0800")
On Tue 19 Apr 2011 03:15, CRLF0710 <crlf0710@gmail.com> writes:
> Guile 2.0 has been there for some time. Why there's still not any
> guile-2.0 package in linux distributions?
> Did they have trouble packaging it?
It's only been out for a couple months, and there are a number of
reverse dependencies, so switching from 1.8 to 2.0 takes some time for a
distro, I think.
That said, work is underway in Debian and Fedora. The hold-up in debian
was libgc, which is now fixed I think.
Andy
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 1:15 Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions? CRLF0710
2011-04-19 3:30 ` Noah Lavine
2011-04-19 5:08 ` CRLF0710
2011-04-19 15:24 ` Dmitry Dzhus
2011-04-20 13:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-04-21 12:00 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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