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Re: language translator help
From: |
Bill Gribble |
Subject: |
Re: language translator help |
Date: |
15 May 2002 19:26:13 -0500 |
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 18:13, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> even more telling is distributors (who have well-articulated criteria
> for evaluating how packages can be good neighbors) refusing to upgrade.
> mega lose (for end users of apps that may benefit from newer guile
> versions had not the newer version been rejected).
I guess you're talking about Red Hat sticking with guile-1.3.4. From
what I've heard, the policy of Red Hat is "no changes in minor version
number of core software without a major version number change of Red
Hat". Therefore, there is no hope of any 1.4.x release getting into Red
Hat until at least 8.0. Hopefully, by then there will be a guile-1.6
that is stable and available, and they will skip the 1.4 series
entirely.
What does this have to do with guile's extension system? guile-1.4 is
uniformly better than 1.3.4 and I'm fairly sure it wasn't rejected on
merit. Just version-number policy.
b.g.
- Re: language translator help, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/01
- Re: language translator help, Neil Jerram, 2002/05/01
- Re: language translator help, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/05/15
- Re: language translator help, Marius Vollmer, 2002/05/15
- Re: language translator help, Marius Vollmer, 2002/05/16
- Re: language translator help, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/05/16
- Re: language translator help, Marius Vollmer, 2002/05/22
- Re: language translator help, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/05/22
- Re: language translator help, Marius Vollmer, 2002/05/22
- Re: language translator help, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/05/22
- Re: language translator help, Marius Vollmer, 2002/05/22
- Re: language translator help, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/05/23