Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y?

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm working on the packaging of 1.6 for Debian, and I wondered if
> anyone would oppose dropping the minor revision number from guile's
> working directory.  The argument against would be that it isn't as
> specific and would prevent you from having two minor revisions of
> guile installed in the same place at the same time, but you can't do
> that anyway since their library, binary, etc. names would collide.

Hmm... shouldn't the libraries from different minor versions of Guile
have different version numbers (bumbed between versions) and therefore
be possible to install in parallel?

Regarding the binary: How about using similar conventions as for
emacs: guile symlinked to guile1.6.1

Best,
Mikael