gEDA-dev: Required versions of Guile & GTK+ (again)

[Peter TB Brett]

Hi folks,

I've found Guile features called Fluids and Dynamic Contexts.  These will 
allow me to put a real flexible, dynamically extensible configuration 
mechanism into gEDA that works much more cleanly than the current one does.

BUT: it would be very difficult to do this if the requirement for Guile 1.6 
support persists. [1]

Given that Guile 1.8 has been the stable release of Guile for almost two years 
now, arguments for *not* dropping Guile 1.6 support in the 1.6.x stable 
series of gEDA should be *very* persuasive.

Similarly, I would like to bump the required GTK+ version to *at least* 2.8.0 
(released August 2005), as the majority of workarounds currently implemented 
are to cope with features introduced in GTK+ 2.6.0.

Regards,

                                  Peter


[1] Specifically, Guile 1.6 does not provide scm_dynwind_begin(), 
scm_dynwind_end() or scm_dynwind_fluid(), and I am not prepared to backport 
them from Guile 1.8 and maintain them.


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://www.seul.org/pipermail/geda-dev/attachments/20071231/4b0ce036/attachment.pgp