Re: Any New Guile Release Planned ?

[Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:54:44PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Rafik NACCACHE <rafik.naccache@gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > Is there any new release planned soon?
> 
> We’ve been meaning to release 2.0.12, which is mostly bug fixes.

The stable-2.0 guile branch contains changes that some of our users
(that is, users of gEDA/gaf) have been waiting for years, especially
after guile 2.0 became necessary to build our package. I mean those
users who have been waiting for Windows support. (Some of them insist on
moving to using Python instead of Guile these days, since they have been
tired trying to cross-compile with guile-2.0 support.) A while ago I was
eventually able to build our toolkit using only one patch for guile [1]
(almost one-liner, in essence), and several work-around patches for some
of our programs, which can be found at [2] and are actually the same
code blocks (declaring an array and doing its initialisation). I don't
know why the latter patches work (geda-gaf with guile 1.8 worked without
them), however, I am sure the issue is in guile 2.0, though I cannot
even found the culprit by bisecting (because of too many changes in both
guile and geda-gaf repositories). Having said all that, I'd like to see
at least the patch [1] committed before the next guile release in order
to have guile cross-compilation for windows working. Are there any
chances for that?

Thanks,
  Vladimir

[1] https://github.com/vzh/minipack/blob/master/patches/guile/0001-MinGW-build-support.patch
[2] https://github.com/vzh/minipack/tree/master/patches/geda-gaf