Subject: Re: lang/guile update to 1.8.1
To: None <>
From: Greg Troxel <>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/04/2007 08:13:46

  2)  blindly point all the packages which currently use guile to
  lang/guile16 and bump their PKGREVISIONS.

  3)  update lang/guile to 1.8.1.

  lang/guile where possible.

That sounds fine, and thanks for doing this.

I believe that executing your plan and the pending removal of guile14
once all guile14-depending packages have been updated to at least
guile16 are entirely separate issues and that there's no need to combine
them.  (You didn't say that, but it came to mind.)

The difficulty that we'll encounter in your plan is that there are
packages like guile-slib, guile-gtk, g-wrap, and maybe guile-lib that
can be built with either 1.6 or 1.8 and some packages will depend on
them.  In an ideal world with infinite resources we'd have a way like
python does to build for various guile versions and have named packages
guile14-slib, guile16-slib, and guile18-slib.  But this is a lot of

