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bug#15194: hop FTBFS
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
bug#15194: hop FTBFS |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:35:54 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> It turns out Hop & Bigloo have to be upgraded in lockstep. I believe
>>> a new Hop version is around the corner, so I’m tempted to just wait
>>> for that.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> I think we should find a solution that doesn't lead to the 'hop' build
>> being broken every time 'bigloo' is upgraded before 'hop'.
>>
>> An obvious solution would be to keep two versions of 'bigloo': the
>> latest release, and the release that corresponds to the latest release
>> of 'hop'. Hopefully these would be the same most of the time.
>
> Yes, that sounds like a plan. And hopefully the “old” Bigloo would just
> differ by its ‘version’ and ‘source’ fields, which is easily handled.
>
> Would you like to propose a patch?
I don't actually use 'bigloo' or 'hop' myself, and right now I have my
hands full with a lot of pending work for Guile, so I'd prefer to let
someone else take care of this. I only know about this problem because
I've been building as many Guix packages as possible, for testing
purposes.
Regards,
Mark