mkpimmc and friends

mkpimmc and friends

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

here are some links to the latest mkpimmc and friends.  (these are
programs for managing module catalogs in both the build tree and in
the installation dirs.)

 http://www.glug.org/snap/core-1-4/scripts/make-module-catalog
 http://www.glug.org/snap/core-1-4/scripts/merge-module-catalogs
 http://www.glug.org/snap/core-1-4/scripts/mkpimmc

mkpimmc will debut w/ guile-1.4.1.99.

thi


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Re: mkpimmc and friends

[Ian Zimmerman]

Thi> mkpimmc will debut w/ guile-1.4.1.99.

I am confused about guile versions.  I have installed 1.6 thinking
it was the latest stable one.  If features are still being added to 1.4,
what is 1.5 and 1.6 for?

-- 
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Or to a stoned person, either.


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Re: mkpimmc and friends

[Paul Jarc]

Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> If features are still being added to 1.4, what is 1.5 and 1.6 for?

Thi is still working with 1.4; he doesn't like 1.6 for some reason.
AFAIK, everyone else making changes to Guile is working on 1.6/1.7.
(But others may still be *running* 1.4, and new Scheme code might be
written so that it still works with 1.4.)


paul


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Re: mkpimmc and friends

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
   Date: 22 Mar 2004 10:16:32 -0800

   I am confused about guile versions.  I have installed 1.6 thinking it
   was the latest stable one.  If features are still being added to 1.4,
   what is 1.5 and 1.6 for?

i "cvs update" from 1.6 (and from HEAD, fwiw) every once in a while to
see if interesting bugfixes, documentation and new features show up (the
cvs commits mailing list seems to have been suspended indefinitely since
savannah was cracked a few months ago), and update 1.4.x w/ the tasty
bits that i find, when i find time to do so.

other people accept those versions as-is for their own reasons.  i don't
speak for them, although strangely enough, sometimes they like to speak
for me.  it can be very confusing at first glance, i agree.  best thing
to do is figure out what features you like and then find and/or build
the system that supports those features.  version numbers are labels,
useful at times but subject to misapplication and misinterpretation.
likewise the word "stable".  perhaps you know all this already.

thi


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Re: mkpimmc and friends

[Christopher Cramer]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:16:32AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> I am confused about guile versions.  I have installed 1.6 thinking
> it was the latest stable one.  If features are still being added to 1.4,
> what is 1.5 and 1.6 for?

ttn decided that he didn't want to use 1.6, and still adds stuff to 1.4.
Most people have moved to 1.6.

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