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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