Re: Release now?

[Rob Browning]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

> {list: I have received no hate mail for ranting so I presume this is
> welcome; feel free to tell me otherwise!}

Well I'm interested, so don't worry about it :>

> There are 2 parallel worlds, one rooted on glib 1.2, and one on
> glib-2.0.  This indeed doesn't scale, but it's the underlying
> interface changes that break compiling that don't scale.  But it
> isn't quite that bad, since in the guile world one would have the
> last guile-gtk version that worked with guile 14, and one that works
> with 16.  Then there is gnome-guile that does glib2/gtk2/ORBit2, and
> probably that would be built for the new guile only.

Ahh, ok, thx.  One of the more aggravating questions which we've
already discussed to death here and on debian-devel, is how do I
handle allowing people to build the current version of g-wrap for
either guile 1.4 or guile 1.6 -- i.e. unless I embed the guile version
in g-wrap's libs' names (or the sonames), then there's no way to pick
a "correct" soname.

> Perhaps this is all a red herring and we can preserve compile-time
> compatibility adequately.  Keeping the old libs around seems to be a
> good solution for running old binaries.  In the specific case of
> Gnucash, what about 1.6 made gnucash 1.6.8 not buildable, and was that
> something that wasn't deprecated in 1.4?  We may be solving the wrong
> problem.

AFAIK gnucash just needed to be ported/updated.  I actually did that
work some time back for another project, but I don't think I preserved
the ability to use both guile 1.4 and guile 1.6, and at the time I
believe that would have been a problem.  I haven't been involved much
with gnucash lately, so I don't know where they actually stand on that
front, and unfortunately I don't think I have those changes anymore.
However, as far as I recall, I got gnucash working fine with guile
1.5.X.

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Rob Browning
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