From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bumping the Guile version requirement
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 11:07:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj5cer7n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150510081733.GD1683@venom.lan> ("Tomáš Čech"'s message of "Sun, 10 May 2015 10:17:33 +0200")
Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@gnu.org> skribis:
> On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:21:27AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) 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.
>
> Why?
I think Mark was referring to users of distros that do not have a Guix
package. Of course when a distro has a Guix package, that’s the
preferred and most convenient way.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-10 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-30 7:42 Bug in configure.ac - Wrong guile version John Darrington
2015-04-30 22:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-01 15:14 ` John Darrington
2015-05-01 17:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-05-01 19:18 ` John Darrington
2015-05-01 20:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-05-02 7:02 ` John Darrington
2015-05-05 20:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-07 16:06 ` Bumping the Guile version requirement Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-07 16:25 ` David Thompson
2015-05-08 8:31 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-05-09 5:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-10 8:17 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-05-10 9:07 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-05-10 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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