Re: [Texmacs-dev] Detecting the version of guile

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 address@hidden wrote:
> I have noticed that recent releases of TeXmacs detect the version of
> GUILE at compile time (in 'configure' script).
>
> I might be missing something, but I want to point out that GUILE
> provides the procedure '(version)' exactly for this purpose. In
> addition it is perfectly portable (no trouble with sed) and works at
> run-time (good for binary distributions).
>
> Is there some reason why this is not used, or is that just an
> oversight?

Yes, this is an oversight.
If you want to propose a patch...