> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:11 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > On donderdag 31 augustus 2017 16:17:20 CEST Aaron Laws wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >> wrote: >>> I meant to add still, if we want to keep guile 1.8 support, the >>> FIND_PACKAGE(GUILE_EXECUTABLE...) rules should move up inside the >>> branches of >>> the GUILE2 vs GUILE1 test. >>> For GUILE2 it can remain >>> FIND_PROGRAM (GUILE_EXECUTABLE guile2.0 guile) >>> IF (NOT GUILE_EXECUTABLE) >>> >>> MESSAGE (SEND_ERROR "The guile executable was not found, but is >>> required. >>> >>> Please set GUILE_EXECUTABLE.") >>> ENDIF (NOT GUILE_EXECUTABLE) >>> >>> For guile 1.8 it should become >>> FIND_PROGRAM (GUILE_EXECUTABLE guile1.8 guile) >>> IF (NOT GUILE_EXECUTABLE) >>> >>> MESSAGE (SEND_ERROR "The guile executable was not found, but is >>> required. >>> >>> Please set GUILE_EXECUTABLE.") >>> ENDIF (NOT GUILE_EXECUTABLE) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Geert >> >> I don't have guile 1. guile --version; returns "2.2.2" and guile2.0 >> --version; returns "2.0.14". > > Yes, distributions shift this all the time... > > I'm still on Fedora 25 which has guile (being 2.0.13) and guile1.8 (being > 1.8.8) > > While checking these version numbers I saw the copyright notice on guile 1.8 > was last updated in 2008(!) and guile 2.0 in 2016. I think it's fair to state > guile 1.8 is getting rather outdated and I'll keep my vote to stop supporting > it ASAP :)
I'm very much in favor of dropping Guile-1.8 support. If Guile-2.2 can be made to work without too much effort adding support for it would be a Good Thing. BTW, while MingGW64 ships Guile it included Cygwin dependencies--it's a MSYS2 package, not a MinGW one--so we can't use it. I've set up the moduleset to build Guile-2.0.14, and if Guile-2.2 works I'd change both Win and Mac to use that. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that Debian has looked at Guile-2.2 even for unstable, but that might be because we're the only major package that uses guile. (The other packages are freehold, libnlopt-guile0, moron, mailtutils-guile, guile-library, guile-son, and gwrap). Looks like Fedora has guile-2.2 beginning with F25, but I don't know of a good way to find out what packages depend on it or on guile-2.0. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
