Guile 2 (was: Cairo plans)

[Jean Abou Samra]

> I would highly prefer to not mix switching the default backend with switching 
> to Guile 2.2 that
> will already be disruptive enough (yes, it's going slower than I had
> hoped...).


At the moment, I have trouble seeing how Guile 2 could be made to work well. 
The absence of error locations is a source of frustration. My understanding is 
that this is a design limitation of Guile 2 and later when interpreting code 
(as opposed to byte-compiling).