On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Debarshi Ray <rishi.is@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The update to guile-2.x has been blocked for almost 1.5 years now: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678238 > > Long story short, existing programs are not ready to use guile-2.x, while newer > versions of aiselriot (part of GNOME) need it. Creating a compat-guile or a > guile2 package can be one way forward. I don't know anything about the guile API and it's compatibility - so just a general note: As a general ideal, there should be only one version of each software/library in the distribution (the rationale for prohibition on bundling libraries mostly applies here as well). The whole purpose of the distribution is to integrate various separate upstream projects into a single well-working OS; therefore, again as a general ideal, the people working on the distribution should actively participate in making it possible to use only a single version, and in getting this done (by sending patches upstream to port uses to a new version of the library, or perhaps by adding backward-compatibility facilities to the library). It may happen that it is easier long-term to maintain both versions of the package than to unify all users on a single version - I wouldn't expect this to be the default, but it can happen. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Parallel-Installations.html suggests that guile assumes parallel installability - while I can google this out, I can't tell whether this implies anything about the support of the 1.x branch, or about other relevant aspects. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
