Re: Support for testing min and max versions of Guile. (issue 11303044)

[Julien Rioux]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:03:31PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> As far as I know, 1.9 is the development series culminating in the
> stable 2.0, so while 1.9 is not all too likely to be installed on
> current systems, allowing/preferring it over 1.8 is not going to be
> helpful.  I think the cutoff point should be at 1.9.

Good point.

I'll make sure to make the change before committing.

 

> Do we have an override option for those people who actually want to
> develop towards 2.0 or are they supposed to edit the autoconf files?

Don't we have a separate branch for guile-2.0?  If not, we should,
and that branch can change the numbers to "guile 2.0 or higher".
(or 2.x if we rely on any more recent guile features or bugfixe)

One overrides these auto settings in the usual way, setting GUILE=/path/to/guile etc on the command line. And as you have seen, once we are ready for guile 2, it's a one-line change in configure.ac

>> Should we document this somewhere?

I think the commit message, pointing to the relevant tracker issue and code review, should be sufficient.

Cheers,
Julien