gEDA-dev: guile-1.8 requirement

[Dan McMahill]

Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Gah, this thread/discussion again. :)  
> 
> [snip]
>>> My question is, why do you expect to use current gEDA without upgrading
>>> the rest of the OS?
>> how about "why do you expect that users should have to update their OS 
>> just to use tools which really are not that tied to the OS version".
> 
> 
> 	Where does it say new programs written in 2007 have to run
> on OSes running back in 2003/2004 out-of-the-box?  Really, it's not
> hard to build guile-1.8.x.  It seems everytime guile changes on us, 
> we have the same discussion. :-|
> 

well....  guile-1.8.x is from late 2006 not 2003/4.  But my comment 
about OS's was really more about the way many linux distributions seem 
to like to treat things like gtk or guile as part of the OS as opposed 
to something that you add on to the OS.  It was not meant to say it is 
not ok to depend on new versions of libraries.

I have several patches to get guile-1.8.1 to build on my alpha (it does 
not build out of the box) but it still is failing some of the testsuite. 
  I'm working on it.  I'll try solaris as soon as gmp finished 
installing.  I'm also working at getting pkgsrc updated to guile-1.8.1.

-Dan

p.s. any reports on guile-1.8.1 from darwin users?