Re: Two Guiles for Guile ?

[Neil Jerram]

Francis Derive wrote:

> On my Fink installation - Mac OS - there are two Guile packages.
> One is just "Guile", the info says it's version 1.4, the maintainer is 
> "Maintainer: None <address@hidden> ".
> The other is "Guile16", the info says it's version 1.6.4, the maintainer 
> is "Maintainer: Peter O'Gorman <address@hidden> ".
> Could anybody tell me which to prefer ? I mean what are the differences, 
> and how can it stand like that both of them ?
> Cheers.

Francis,

For new work, Guile 1.6.4 is preferable in all ways.  Guile 1.4 is 
probably just there because your installation includes a Guile-using 
program that was written to 1.4 and has not been upgraded to the 1.6.x 
series.  (Unfortunately 1.6.x was not completely back-compatible w.r.t. 
1.4.)

Regards,
     Neil