Re: Status of Guile 2.0 Support (Next Debian release won't ship guile-1.8)

[Don Armstrong]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, David Kastrup wrote:
> so is Debian planning to ditch BEAST altogether, too?
> 
> I see the same for TeXmacs: depends on guile-1.8-dev.  And on
> <URL:http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/sources.en.html> I read
> "Please note that as of Oct. 2013, Guile 2.x is not supported; you will
> need Guile 1.8."
> 
> Is all that going to get removed?  I thought TeXmacs had a reasonably
> large user base, too.

I suspect that if they don't eventually support guile 2.0, they will be
removed... but given that there are multiple packages requiring guile
1.8, it'll almost definitely be supported for another release.

-- 
Don Armstrong                      http://www.donarmstrong.com

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue
to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your
flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
 -- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man Month