On 2017-03-28 02:11, szgyg wrote:
FWIW guile 2.2.0 was released two weeks ago [0]. Mostly works, but it
still has failing tests [1].
Oh, great...
So we probably should take this into consideration *now*, even though
most guile consumers aren't ready for the changes in 2.2 yet.
Fortunately, it seems guile itself has taken their own instability into
account:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Parallel-Installations.html
Although looking at packages which use guile, most haven't fully adapted
to this yet (guile-config is still used by some, and it doesn't seem
anyone is using pkg-config to find guile and guild), so we still need to
provide unversioned binaries/scripts in /usr/bin for now.
It's way too early to make 2.2 "the" guile, so I think we stick with a
versioned guile1.8 for the stragglers, and 'guile' being 2.0 for now,
but eventually transitioning to a versioned 'guile2.0'. We'll have to
take another look at this once the real world has adapted to 2.2.
--
Yaakov
