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

Peter C. Norton spacey@lenin.nu
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:48:35 -0700


Yeah, 1.3 is a pretty lackluster guile.  And that's saying something :)

-Peter

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:08:31PM +0000, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote:
> Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> > As far as I can tell, the latest version of g-wrap works fine with
> > guile 1.3.4 and guile 1.4 on my system(s).
> >
> > Since it would be somewhat difficult/time-consuming for me to install
> > guile-1.3 and add backward compatibility and test g-wrap, I'm trying
> > to figure out if it would be unreasonable to just require guile 1.3.4
> > or newer and add a test to the g-wrap configure process.
> >
> > Since I don't have much experience with the other distributions, I was
> > hoping people could give me an idea of where they are with respect to
> > guile packaging.  Also, please let me know if my assertion about 1.3.4
> > and 1.4 being OK is wrong.
> >
> > Thanks
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> > Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
> >
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> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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