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Re: Slightly confused - what's the 'active' version of Guile


From: Marius Vollmer
Subject: Re: Slightly confused - what's the 'active' version of Guile
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:41:07 +0100
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Roland Besserer <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been working with guile for a while and the version I've used is
> 1.6.4. I have, for example, modified the greg code to work with that
> release and done some extensions to make it closer to expect.
>
> Anyway, following exchanges on this group, I mostly see references to
> guile version 1.4.x - almost never 1.6.x!
>
> Could someone enlighten me? Is 1.6.x not considered the latest working
> release?

1.6.x is the official 'stable' series.  `Official' means it is the
version released by the FSF.

1.7.x is the official 'unstable' series where most development
happens.

1.4.x is the old series that predated the 1.6.x series.  It is
maintained 'inofficially' by those who don't want to make the switch
to 1.6.x.

Most talk here on the list is about versions 1.6.x or 1.7.x (which is
sometimes also called "CVS HEAD" or similar) without explicitely
stating that 1.4.x is not meant.

When you have a good reason to use the 1.4.x series, we would like to
know about this reason so that we can try to make it go away.

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