Re: Release now?

[Marius Vollmer]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm all for shorter intervals between releases, but it would be good
> to make sure that packages expecting 1.6 can work with 1.8 (modulo
> insisting on a specific version when it isn't necessary, which is easy
> to patch).

Yes, we definitely need to be able to have two versions of Guile
installed with the same prefix and have them be usable for running
programs.  However, I don't think we need to make special arrangements
for being able to compile against two versions of Guile at the same
time.  Having to use different prefices for the two versions seems
acceptable to me.

Would pkg-config address this issue?  I.e. could one say `guile-config
--use-version 1.6 link` (or something similar) with the effect that
the right '-L' and '-R' options are spit out?


However, a more serious problem exists for external modules of Scheme
code that want to use a specific version of Guile.  For this, I think
we should add versions to our module system.