How many people are using guile 1.3 (not 1.3.4) and can't easily switch?

[Peter C. Norton]

The various gnome-games packages, and maybe other parts of gnome.  There
aren't many (any?) other widely-distributed packages, though.

-Peter

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:43:01PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> Rob Browning writes:
> > Richard -Gilligan- Uschold <uschold@cs.ucf.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm using guile 1.3, only because the rpm I downloaded for 1.4.4
> > > required it.  I thought it odd that it wasn't using a more recent
> > > version.  I'll upgrade to 1.4.7 to see if that solves the problem.
> > 
> > I seem to recall that there was some ugliness with 1.3 anyway, and
> > that the guile people would really prefer people use 1.3.4.  I can't
> > remember what the issue was, though...
> 
> The issue is that Redhat 6.x uses guile-1.3. That means if there are
> any other programs which link to guile, upgrading to guile-1.3.4 will
> be a pain because the library major version # changed and those other
> programs will break. I don't know if there are other programs that
> link to it, though.
> 
> dave
> 
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