Re: Guile 3.0

[David Kastrup]

Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk> writes:

> On 23/05/2022 20:19, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> Vendoring Guile seems totally impractical. The Guile compilation does
>> some sort of bootstrapping, which makes building it from scratch
>> glacially slow (like: O(1 hour)), so it would be impossible for day to
>> day development work.
>
> Just an idea, if "current" Guile has issues - could you just vendor
> Guile in the stable release?

Well, Guile upstream has a strange notion of what "stable release" is
supposed to mean, so in effect one would have to create one's own
"stable release" and cherry-pick actual fixes instead of the entirety of
what is stable more in the Augeas sense.

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David Kastrup