From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: RFD: drop the GH interface. Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wshgl5sd.fsf@gnu.org> <871vzhho7c.fsf@gnu.org> <48D26E19.5000301@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221861472 18702 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2008 21:57:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: bkorb@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 23:58:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kgo00-0003ip-Un for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:58:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgnyz-0004s4-KD for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgnyt-0004qL-0T for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgnyq-0004pY-Hi for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52410 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgnyq-0004pV-Ar for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]:60525) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kgnym-0000j1-4S; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 0B97152A6; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Hashcash: 1:20:080919:guile-devel@gnu.org::N/uZBCNTLGU+Og+E:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000002cF7 X-Hashcash: 1:20:080919:bkorb@gnu.org::eRzTk2/RFsCCATt8:00008bfL In-Reply-To: <48D26E19.5000301@gnu.org> (Bruce Korb's message of "Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:04:57 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7730 Archived-At: Bruce Korb writes: > From a Guile-user and not developer perspective, the sequence needs to be: > 1. the most retrograde platform must have all the GH capabilities in > the SCM interfaces for their releases. It seems to take quite a few > years for BSD to get around to building newer versions. I'm not sure quite what you mean. The BSD systems are different from linux in that there is a 'base system' and then a 'package system', and releases of the base system are decoupled from packaging system changes. NetBSD and Dragonfly uses pkgsrc, and pkgsrc has stable pkgsrc releases every quarter. Currently pkgsrc has guile 1.8.5, which I think is up to date. I am not clear on the status of guile in FreeBSD ports and OpenBSD ports. I don't think there are other BSDs. > I think we're to step 3 now, but I need to check the Guile version > distributed with net/open/free BSD. Last I looked (~4 or 5 years > ago...), it was either 1.4.x or, perhaps, 1.6.x. It was many years > behind. In any case, I would suggest checking with your "customers" > and "redistributors" instead of this list. IMHO, anyway. I maintain the guile package in pkgsrc; I would hope the other system's maintainers are also on this list, or at least on some announce list. But for pkgsrc, it's been at 1.8 since date: 2007/06/12 03:02:33; author: dmcmahill; state: Exp; lines: +24 -3