Remove internal srfi's

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Apr 4 11:53:25 EDT 2010


On Apr 4, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On Sunday 4 April 2010, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> Coming back to an old thread... see
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2010-March/027641.html
>> 
>> The thread indicates that if our own sfri's are not pulled in when building
>> against guile 1.6, they can be safely removed from our source.
>> 
>> The only platform that is still using guile 1.6 is Windows. (I tried moving
>> the windows build to guile 1.8.x but failed. I have given up on that
>> attempt for now).
> I realize this statement is not 100% accurate. Debian Lenny still builds 
> GnuCash with guile 1.6.8. I have no way to test if our own srfi's are pulled 
> on that platform. I assume not, since 1.6.8 is also the guile version on 
> Windows.
> 
> In any case, I still think the srfi's can be removed, because guile 1.8.x is 
> also readily available on lenny. So if guile 1.6 would cause any issues the 
> lenny packager could simply choose to build the gnucash 2.3+ against 1.8.
> 

I think they can too. The problem is that we officially support guile 1.6.0., and I wasn't able to get that to build so I couldn't check that the gnucash srfis aren't pulled in. If we update the minimum guile version to 1.6.7, we can very safely remove the srfis.

Regards,
John Ralls



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