Gnucash with Guile 2

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 6 mei 2011, John Ralls wrote:
> On May 6, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Daniel Kraft wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm not able to build Gnucash 2.4.5 with Guile 2 installed -- which is
> > not too surprising, since the API and architecture of Guile changed a
> > lot since 1.8.  Is this expected, or is there some way I can build
> > Gnucash without having to install also an old Guile somewhere?  Are
> > there plans to switch to the new API (or in general, support Guile 2)?
> 
> It's expected. We haven't done anything with Guile2. Heck, we just got rid
> of the Guile 1.6 dependencies in trunk. I'm afraid you're stuck with
> having to have both versions installed for awhile.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
If you are adventurous though, you could try to build GnuCash from trunk. I 
have applied a number of patches by Andy Wingo [1] that should make GnuCash 
work with Guile 2. It would be a nice test to see if that actually works.

Standard disclaimer: note that such an attempt is at your own risk. Trunk is 
not considered production quality and using it may cause crashes and data 
loss.

If you want to try it and have further questions, I suggest you subscribe to 
the gnucash-devel list and post your findings there.

Regards,

Geert

[1] the patches were posted here: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615168