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Subject: Re: Guile 3 migration plan
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:43:39 +0100
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Hi!

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:

> On 2020-01-16, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> Today is Guile 3 day, a day to celebrate, woohoo!  \o/
>
> Yay!
>
>> How will Guix migrate to Guile 3?  That=E2=80=99s a threefold process:
> ...
>>   2. We must be able to run Guix itself on Guile 3.  This is already
>>      possible if you add =E2=80=9C3.0=E2=80=9D to the =E2=80=98GUILE_PKG=
=E2=80=99 invocation in
>>      =E2=80=98configure.ac=E2=80=99, but there are still a few test fail=
ures that I=E2=80=99ve
>>      been working on.
> ...
>>      Once we=E2=80=99re done, we can change (guix self) so that =E2=80=
=98guix pull=E2=80=99
>>      pulls Guix on Guile 3.
>
> Will it still be buildable from source with only guile 2.2? I have no
> idea when Debian will have guile 3 available, for example, and was
> hoping to be able to start the process of uploading ... "soon".

For some time (a few months at least?) we=E2=80=99ll make sure Guix can be =
built
from source with both 2.2 and 3.0.

Ludo=E2=80=99.