Guile 1.8 vs 2.0 (was: Re: building from source.)

[Alex Kempshall]

Geert

Thanks for the quick response.

I'll download the latest 2.5.x and see how I get along.

Thanks

Alex


On Tuesday 12 Nov 2013 10:58:29 Geert Janssens wrote:

Hi Alex,

On Tuesday 12 November 2013 09:41:29 mcmurchy1917-gnucash at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> I've come into this chat a bit late. I have gnucash running on
> Slackware.
> 
> In the last few weeks slackware has swapped over to using guile 2.0.9
> previously it was on 1.8.8.
> 
> To enable gnucash to work I installed guile 1.8.8 to sit in my distro
> as a standalone package and to sit alongside guile 2.0.9.
> 
> See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/gnucash-on-
> slackware-14-1-a-4175483337/ for more information.
> 
> 
> My question here is this thread about getting the 2.4 gnucash series
> working with guile 2.0?

No, this thread is about guile 2 for GnuCash 2.5.x and up.

GnuCash 2.4 won't work with guile 2. The developers chose to continue to 
support guile 1.6 in the GnuCash 2.4 stable series. Supporting both guile 1.6 
and guile 2 would require hacks that are not worth the effort.
> 
> While I'm here what's the outlook for the gnucash 2.6 series?

Barring unexpected serious issues, GnuCash 2.6.0 is planned for the last week 
of December. We are currently in feature freeze and ironing out the last 
remaining issues, with string freeze coming up with an intermediate release 
later this week.

Geert