Proposed F19 Feature: Guile2

[Jaroslav Reznik]

= Features/Guile2 =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Guile2

Feature owner(s): Jan Synacek <jsynacek(a)redhat.com&gt; 

Update GNU Guile to version 2.0.x in Fedora 19. 

== Detailed description ==
Current guile package will be upgraded to 2.0.x.

compat-guile18 package will provide additional time for the 
packages to be ported to guile-2.0.x.
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[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:58:09 -0500 (EST)
Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  = Features/Guile2 =
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Guile2
>  
>  Feature owner(s): Jan Synacek <jsynacek(a)redhat.com&gt; 
>  
>  Update GNU Guile to version 2.0.x in Fedora 19. 
>  
>  == Detailed description ==
>  Current guile package will be upgraded to 2.0.x.
>  
>  compat-guile18 package will provide additional time for the 
>  packages to be ported to guile-2.0.x. 
Passing along for someone who's not on list: 

>  > This is a major new revision.  It has had some startup
> problems.
>  > Please do not use any version earlier than what is, right now, the
>  > absolute latest version.  The current stable release is 2.0.7.
>  > Thank you.  
>  
>  because my application has stumbled fairly hard over issues that were
>  not fully addressed until this particular release.  If that is the
>  version already planned, then that is all I really need to know.... :) 
So, is 2.0.7 or later planned? 

kevin

[Jan Synacek]

On 01/23/2013 04:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:58:09 -0500 (EST)
>  Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> > = Features/Guile2 =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Guile2
> >
> > Feature owner(s): Jan Synacek <jsynacek(a)redhat.com&gt; 
> >
> > Update GNU Guile to version 2.0.x in Fedora 19. 
> >
> > == Detailed description ==
> > Current guile package will be upgraded to 2.0.x.
> >
> > compat-guile18 package will provide additional time for the 
> > packages to be ported to guile-2.0.x.
>  
>  Passing along for someone who's not on list: 
>  
> >> This is a major new revision.  It has had some startup problems.
> >> Please do not use any version earlier than what is, right now, the
> >> absolute latest version.  The current stable release is 2.0.7.
> >> Thank you.  
> >
> > because my application has stumbled fairly hard over issues that were
> > not fully addressed until this particular release.  If that is the
> > version already planned, then that is all I really need to know.... :)
>  
>  So, is 2.0.7 or later planned? 
>   
Yes, currently, the latest version (2.0.7) is prepared. If there's any new
release by the time I will be updating it, I'll use the latest one.

-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, BaseOS team Brno, Red Hat

[Bill Nottingham]

Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik(a)redhat.com) said: 
>  = Features/Guile2 =
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Guile2
>  
>  Feature owner(s): Jan Synacek <jsynacek(a)redhat.com&gt; 
>  
>  Update GNU Guile to version 2.0.x in Fedora 19. 
>  
>  == Detailed description ==
>  Current guile package will be upgraded to 2.0.x.
>  
>  compat-guile18 package will provide additional time for the 
>  packages to be ported to guile-2.0.x. 
Will compat-guile1.8 provide guile = 1.8 (and similarly for
compat-guile1.8-devel?

Bill

[Jan Synacek]

On 01/23/2013 10:23 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik(a)redhat.com) said: 
> > = Features/Guile2 =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Guile2
> >
> > Feature owner(s): Jan Synacek <jsynacek(a)redhat.com&gt; 
> >
> > Update GNU Guile to version 2.0.x in Fedora 19. 
> >
> > == Detailed description ==
> > Current guile package will be upgraded to 2.0.x.
> >
> > compat-guile18 package will provide additional time for the 
> > packages to be ported to guile-2.0.x.
>  
>  Will compat-guile1.8 provide guile = 1.8 (and similarly for
>  compat-guile1.8-devel?
>   
Yes. The compat package has already been built for rawhide. It's also been
tested pretty well during the review.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868263

-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, BaseOS team Brno, Red Hat