From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel 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 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303389067 32209 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2011 12:31:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: CRLF0710 Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 14:31:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCt2E-0002dt-S4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41279 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCt2E-0002zy-CR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCt2B-0002vA-81 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCt2A-00022b-8x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:53871 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCt2A-00022O-1N for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:30:58 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76AE23CBA; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:32:58 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=SYMtoOMXxsrmNEBw0btL6YNUrdg=; b=EVEF8I +zq+ad+ZGzj3nLRoiv6TTZSBReUjitToJGn1oHdmhcIsIPux0hWnyyaCzBNwF58x CFUKZff8xniiXAtK0ycTMS8KoAS2GM2kjLWU6Lcm7QJccb77WYI95I9/jmx0BvNh yQSat4O/zsEO7aAUiq11sps+aEpwaPwYs2glY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=jdh9DAUw0CtNxQPXsqxGpiFAiw7dXhn0 wg2bqaC8UE0lBZfus2bAbogbyYqHqA0/n1wmmdOtxp2zon1zg5n9vpUkcoTmag7U PMkhXu0Hf/lTJqKZKZVh7uw+dQSk0G87pE+IUydzqD8POsjdzw2I+9FzB53oY4ug 2Ly7xM7FeNA= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604113CB9; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:32:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 958EF3CB7; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:32:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (CRLF's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:15:42 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7CA2D4AA-6C13-11E0-B23E-E8AB60295C12-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12308 Archived-At: On Tue 19 Apr 2011 03:15, CRLF0710 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 -- http://wingolog.org/