bug#10488: guile-config deprecation?

[dsmich]

---- Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote: 
> On Thu 12 Jan 2012 19:42, Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > There's a bit of confusion on the guile-config deprecation.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > NEWS says that guile-config "will be deprecated"
> 
> This reflects what I would like to happen, but I share your concern that
> we not create a situation in which "guile-config will just disappear
> with no equally powerful, documented replacement in place".  Hence the
> slowness of this transition.  Thanks for bringing it up.
> 
> > meta/guile-config.in says it "has been deprecated"
> 
> I changed the text to "will be deprecated".  It's somewhat
> weasel-worded, I guess.
> 
> > meta/guile.m4's GUILE_PROGS rule will error "guile-config required
> > but not found"
> 
> Uf, this is a can of worms.  I hacked on this a bit this morning, and
> came up with the following.  What do you think?

How about adding something for extensiondir ?

-Dale