From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow for incremental upgrade from guile-2.0 to guile-next. Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:35:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1qknglk.fsf@igalia.com> References: <87egb0khu5.fsf@drakenvlieg.flower> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj5RG-0004sW-FU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:36:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj5RB-0001pX-Hk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:36:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87egb0khu5.fsf@drakenvlieg.flower> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:25:06 +0100") 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: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed 23 Mar 2016 22:25, Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Hi, > > Using Guile-2.0 and Guile-2.2 together is currently cumbersome, esp. on > Guix, mainly because of incompatible .go files that must not be in the > GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH. > > This patch allows using compiled .go files for guile and guile-next in > one GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH by having guile skip any invalid .go files > and thus allows for incremental upgrade to guile-2.2. > > Greetings, Jan I would like to review and apply these first upstream. WDYT? Of course if we are being too slow, doing it in Guix is fine too, but it's less good than getting review upstream first. Andy