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Re: [RFC] Transition to Guile 3.0
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Jonas Hahnfeld |
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Re: [RFC] Transition to Guile 3.0 |
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Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:45:51 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2023-11-05 at 22:48 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> What I don't really understand is why you want to add compatibility
> with Guile 3.0.x for small x. Upstream completely breaks the normal
> expectation from what you would find in a point release, by putting
> features and even severely backwards incompatible changes (like
> cross-module inlining in 3.0.8 *cough*), so I think this is definitely
> going to be more work to keep supporting (in particular: testing) than
> with dependencies that don't have this peculiarity. I'd rather define
> a minimum version in the 3.0.x series that we want to support.
Sure, but that is currently defined by Ubuntu 20.04 having Guile 3.0.1.
We could of course move "Step 5" earlier in the process, but then I
argue we still need to pay attention to what versions of Guile are in
the wild, the next one probably being Guile 3.0.5 in Debian Bullseye...
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