how to manage 2 guile version

[Marco Atzeri]

On 28/03/2017 18:01, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-03-28 02:11, szgyg wrote:
>> FWIW guile 2.2.0 was released two weeks ago [0]. Mostly works, but it
>> still has failing tests [1].
>
> Oh, great...
>
> So we probably should take this into consideration *now*, even though
> most guile consumers aren't ready for the changes in 2.2 yet.
>
> Fortunately, it seems guile itself has taken their own instability into
> account:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Parallel-Installations.html
>
>
> Although looking at packages which use guile, most haven't fully adapted
> to this yet (guile-config is still used by some, and it doesn't seem
> anyone is using pkg-config to find guile and guild), so we still need to
> provide unversioned binaries/scripts in /usr/bin for now.
>
> It's way too early to make 2.2 "the" guile, so I think we stick with a
> versioned guile1.8 for the stragglers, and 'guile' being 2.0 for now,
> but eventually transitioning to a versioned 'guile2.0'.  We'll have to
> take another look at this once the real world has adapted to 2.2.
>

Considering some are still straggling on the 1.8 to 2.0 conversion,
2.2 is for far future.

Do you think we need to maintain 1.8 around ?
Debian seems to have drop it.


regards
Marco