Using newer versions of guile and g-wrap

[Derek Atkins]

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

> Are you really saying that gnucash 1.7.x (and by extension, 1.8) will not
> support guile 1.6?

Well, the configure script specifically tests for and rejects guile >=
1.5.0 so yes, Gnucash 1.7.1 does not support guile 1.6.  It is
possible that this may change before 1.8, but I believe some of the
issue is g-wrap not supporting 1.6.  Another issue may be incompatible
API changes, but honestly I dont recall why we made these checks
offhand.

> From what you've written there doesn't seem to be a point in upgrading
> g-wrap and guile for gnucash 1.6.
> 
> To sum up the dependency:
>   gnucash              g-wrap           guile
>   1.6.x             1.1.11 or 1.2.x    < 1.5.x
>   1.7.x,1.8         above plus 1.3.4   < 1.5.x

This is the current dependency, yes.  And it is "< 1.5.0", for the
record.

> What versions of guile work properly on 64 bit arches?

I don't know.  I am not a guile hacker.

> James (Jay) Treacy
> treacy@debian.org

-derek

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