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Re: rfc: next guile 1.8.x release
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: rfc: next guile 1.8.x release |
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Date: |
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:35:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> skribis:
> I would like to work (on the weekends, so as not to intefere w/
> <day-job>) on preparation and release of Guile 1.8.9, targeted
> for the ides of April (more or less).
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> Guile 1.8.x users: What changes do you want to see in 1.8.9?
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> Guile maintainers: Any tips (process, content, interop, etc)
> most welcome!
Guile 1.8 has been unmaintained for years and I wonder about the message
we’d be sending by publishing a bug-fix release 11 years and 3 major
versions later.
I know it still has two important users (LilyPond and TeXmacs), but it
doesn’t seem viable to me to go this route.
Ludo’.