Build dependencies (was: Re: Request: require glib2 >= 2.12)

[John Ralls]

On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> lib/srfi/README says that the srfis are there to support older
>> versions of Guile which don't include them; the minimum version of
>> Guile that configure will accept is 1.6.0, which does distribute the
>> srfis, so should the srfi directory and attendant configure checks go
>> away?
> 
> I think it's PROBABLY safe to remove these now.
> 

Hmm. That means that it would need to be thoroughly tested. Do the current tests provide sufficient coverage to make sure that without is OK? Alternatively, if I do a build against Guile-1.6.0 and the gnucash srfis aren't pulled in, is that good enough?

Regards,
John Ralls