Re: More Guile 1.8 code failing in 2.x

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 06:48 -0800, Mike Gran wrote:
> > From: Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Thanks for this - it seems define-once is not defined in guile 1.8
> > however, so while some systems only have guile 2.0 (Fedora) and others
> > only have guile 1.8 (Debian stable) I would need something more.
> 
> Just as an aside... Fedora doesn't have Guile 2.0 at all, except in its
> experimental Rawhide distro.
Yes, it was the maintainer of Denemo for Fedora that raised a bug about
the lack of guile 2.0 support. I guess he was unable to test it for the
upcoming release...

Richard

>   It still ships with 1.8.  Still about
> half of the Guile-using programs in Fedora can't compile with 2.0, so
> Fedora will be shipping with both guile-1.8 and 2.0 in the next version,
> Fedora 19.  Maintainers will be able to link their packages to
> either one. The executable for Guile 2.0 will likely be called
> /usr/bin/guile2.
>  
> -Mike