gEDA-dev: guile-1.8 requirement

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:17:29PM -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> The big-picture question is:  Which Linux distros do we want to
> support?  Is SuSE 9.3 too old?  SuSE 10.x?  How about FC2, 3, 4,
> 5.....   If we define a few distros which are "supported", and declare
> older ones "unsupported", then we can see which use guile-1.6 and
> which use guile-1.8.

My question is, why do you expect to use current gEDA without upgrading
the rest of the OS?

> computer equipment).  And I'd bet that lots of gEDA users are on
> machines approaching (or over) 3 years old.

But is there any reason why they can't upgrade the OS? For example why
are you still using an old SuSE version?


Perhaps I'm spoilt by Debian (and derivatives)'s ability to upgrade
without reinstalling. Honestly I can't understand why anyone would use a
system without it.

Hamish
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