From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:26:55 -0400 Message-ID: <87oauftttc.fsf@yeeloong.lan> References: <20140915160031.19d405d4@bother.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410885034 25591 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2014 16:30:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Chris Vine Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 16 18:30:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTvdw-0001ts-JO for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTvdw-0007ks-4X for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTvcZ-0005dV-Aq for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTvcT-0000IQ-1k for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:45781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTvcS-0000HZ-VH for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-62-95-23.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.62.95.23] helo=yeeloong.lan) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XTvcI-0006D5-B1; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:28:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140915160031.19d405d4@bother.homenet> (Chris Vine's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:00:31 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11517 Archived-At: Chris Vine writes: > But quite honestly, if you want to experiment with newer software don't > use an archaic distribution such as debian stable, which is out of date > even when first released. Umm, I think it's quite reasonable to run a distribution of older software that has gone through a long testing period and works well together, and then to compile more recent versions of selected packages of particular interest. In my experience, every time I've run a more cutting-edge distro, I inevitably end up hitting bugs in software I don't care about when I'm just trying to get something else done, leaving me less time to work on the packages I choose to focus on. YMMV, of course. Mark