Re: Any New Guile Release Planned ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:15:33 +0300
> From: Vladimir Zhbanov <address@hidden>
> 
> The stable-2.0 guile branch contains changes that some of our users
> (that is, users of gEDA/gaf) have been waiting for years, especially
> after guile 2.0 became necessary to build our package. I mean those
> users who have been waiting for Windows support. (Some of them insist on
> moving to using Python instead of Guile these days, since they have been
> tired trying to cross-compile with guile-2.0 support.) A while ago I was
> eventually able to build our toolkit using only one patch for guile [1]
> (almost one-liner, in essence), and several work-around patches for some
> of our programs, which can be found at [2] and are actually the same
> code blocks (declaring an array and doing its initialisation). I don't
> know why the latter patches work (geda-gaf with guile 1.8 worked without
> them), however, I am sure the issue is in guile 2.0, though I cannot
> even found the culprit by bisecting (because of too many changes in both
> guile and geda-gaf repositories). Having said all that, I'd like to see
> at least the patch [1] committed before the next guile release in order
> to have guile cross-compilation for windows working. Are there any
> chances for that?

Just so you and your users know: there's a 32-bit MinGW build of Guile
2.0.x here:

  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/guile-2.0.11-2-w32-bin.zip/download