gEDA-dev: guile-1.8 requirement

Ales Hvezda ahvezda at moria.seul.org
Mon Jun 4 00:18:59 EDT 2007


Hi Dan,

[snip]
>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.

	Okay, my mistake.  Thanks for clarifying.

							-Ales

PS. It's still an interesting mind exercise whether or not I would use
    guile for a new project.  Also, the same dependency update transition
    happens when a new incompatible gtk+ comes out (though with less
    complaining).



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