guile-3.0 release plan

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 12.03.2020 um 06:00 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
> Am 11.03.2020 um 23:02 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>> On 2020-03-11 13:32, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> With the release of guile-3.0.1 that builds fine on Cygwin,
>>> I am thinking to copy the debian layout
>>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/guile-3.0
>>> so to obsoletes the "guile" package and have instead
>>> guile1.8 libguile17     libguile1.8-devel
>>> guile2.0 libguile2.0_22 libguile2.0-devel
>>> guile2.2 libguile2.2_1  libguile2.2-devel
>>> guile3.0 libguile3.0_1  libguile3.0-devel
>>> this should make the life more easy during release and
>>> during future prunig of any older version not used anymore
>>> Of course this will cause that all programs will be versioned
>>>          usr/bin/guild-3.0
>>>          usr/bin/guile-3.0.exe
>>>          usr/bin/guile-tools-3.0
>>> Any problem with that ?
>>
>> Will you also provide symlinks or use alternatives for backward 
>> compatibility?
>>
> 
> not planned. Do we need it ?
> 
> For what I see most of the packages are already aware
> of the guile instability and plan accordingly
> 
> This is coming from configure.ac of make 4.3
> 
>      guile_versions="3.0 2.2 2.0 1.8"
> 

I am testing a "alternatives" implementation for at list

3.0.1 amd 2.2.7

that I will deploy together.
I am copying the scheme used by "unison" as base line

Regards
Marco