From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Bumping the Guile version requirement Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 01:21:27 -0400 Message-ID: <876182qqaw.fsf@netris.org> References: <20150430074219.GA572@jocasta.intra> <87r3r1dzra.fsf@gnu.org> <20150501151439.GA8466@intra> <874mnqwzb7.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhh0pe2v.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqxCl-0007JZ-HC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 01:21:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqxCi-0005bx-Ab for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 01:21:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lhh0pe2v.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Thu, 07 May 2015 18:06:16 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > I think for 0.8.2 I will actually bump the requirement to Guile 2.0.7 or > 2.0.9 (the latter is what Debian 8 has.) People on older systems will > still be able to install Guix using the binary tarball. > > What do people think? Sounds good to me. The binary tarball should probably be the preferred method for installing on top of other distros anyway. Mark