Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

2024-07-18 Thread Attila Lendvai
> > IOW, if you don't want changes in your dependencies, then just don't > update them. > > This does not work. > > You often have to update dependencies for security reasons. Got a new > gnutls or openssl or openssh with new cyphers you need to have a working > program — will Guile 3 get

Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

2024-07-18 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Attila Lendvai writes: >> > IOW, if you don't want changes in your dependencies, then just don't >> update them. >> >> This does not work. >> >> You often have to update dependencies for security reasons. Got a new >> gnutls or openssl or openssh with new cyphers you need to have a worki

Re: The Guile junk drawer and a C plea

2024-07-18 Thread Greg Troxel
I'll just add, as someone who works on packaging of guile in pkgsrc, that we have had to have multiple versions for a long time. There is software useful enough for people to want, with various requirements. Currently we have 1.8 2.0 2.2 3.0 If there were more concern about compatibility