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Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> And I would suggest a configure switch to allow use with guile-2.0 as
>> well. The changes for 2.2 are minimal at this point. In time as the 2.2
>> dependency becomes more extensive and 2.0 usage declines the support can
>> be dropped. I am willing to write the patch if needed.
>>
>> Glenn
>
> Glenn,
>
> Maybe not. I see that the next release of Slackware, for instance, may
> have at least guile 3.0.4. That is what is in the "current"
> (pre-release) as of this moment:
>
>     https://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/slackware/slackware-current/source/d/guile/
>
> Slackware, for one, appears to be jumping over guile 2.2. I have not
> checked other distros to see if they are following this jump to guile 3.x.
>
> So that configure switch may become a 2.2 vs. 3.0 switch in the near
> future. I also hear that 3.0.4 is not backward compatible to 2.x.
> Hence the major version number bump. It also means I cannot just
> install the guile 3.0.4 Slackware package from Slack "current" to
> solve the gEDA guile problem.
>
>
You may be right but it is not uncommon to have several versions of a
library in a distro. So PV may have 2.2 and 3.0 available by the next
release. Time will tell. I only upgrade when I have to anyway, or when I
get a new machine :)

Glenn