Using newer versions of guile and g-wrap

[Derek Atkins]

"James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org> writes:

> Debian currently supplies guile 1.4 and g-wrap 1.1.11. As a Debian
> developer and the maintainer of the gnucash package, I would like to
> update Debian with newer versions of those packages. What are the most
> recent version of these programs that gnucash can handle?

What version of Gnucash?  Gnucash-1.6 can ONLY use g-wrap < 1.3.0 
(i.e. it REQUIRES g-wrap 1.2.x or 1.1.11).  Also, all versions require
guile <= 1.5.x.

> My goal is to use guile 1.6 and g-wrap 1.3.2 asap as I understand there
> issues with 64 bit machines have been dealt with in these newer
> versions (please correct me if I'm wrong). Debian currently supports
> 11 architectures and I'd like gnucash to work on all of them.

You cannot use g-wrap 1.3.2 with gnucash-1.6.

-derek

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