Re: g-wrap parallel installability part deux

[Andreas Rottmann]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Howdy,
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:03 +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>> > "Install guile-gnome, but, er, not if you have gnucash..."
>> >
>> Well, GnuCash depends on the G-Wrap .scm modules only at build time,
>> so it should be no problem overwriting the old g-wrap module (assuming
>> that people don't want to rebuild gnucash).
>
> IIRC for glist-of, wct, and wcp handling it does need the generated SCM
> wrappers. Can't recall quite right. 
>
Sure, but I was talking about the .scm modules that belong to G-Wrap itself.

> Besides, it is completely wrong for one incompatible version to
> overwrite another, leaving its pieces around. This means e.g. the
> gnucash .deb couldn't install correctly.
>
This could be fixed by breaking up the (old) g-wrap .debs into the
run-time and build-time parts.

Andy
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