[Scwm-devs] Re: scwm

[Scott L. <sl...@gs...>]

> Scott,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >  The current version in CVS should work with Guile 1.4.  I haven't bothered
> >targeting any later version since 1.4 seems to be the latest version in both
> >Debian and Redhat.  It is certainly the latest in Debian (which is what I run)
> >
> Is there a way to configure/sequester SCWM so that it can run and use 
> it's own personal copy of guile?
> I know you can compile SCWM with it's own copy of guile, but once it's 
> installed will it search the
> system path for a guile?
> 
> Guile 1.5.x seems to be in use by some of the latest Gnome packages. 
>  I'm pretty sure the latest
> version of Gnumeric is using 1.5.x.   Of course, that is a development 
>  version of guile.  From what
> I understand the even versions ,1.4, 1.6 etc., are stable versions.  I 
> think I saw on the guile list or
> site that either a 1.6 or 1.8 release was near.
> 
> Fred
> 

Hmm, not available yet in Debian unstable.  What distribution/source packages 
are you
using.  My understanding was that Guile was on version 1.5.x which was going to
be a full release but they decided to redo their numbering so that it is a
devel release.  They still strongly recommend using it over 1.4.x on the Guile
site.  I haven't bothered to port to it yet because I didn't think it was in
common use in the distributions.  It certainly doesn't seem to be in Debian yet
but sometimes Debian can be slow on some packages since it is all volunteer
based.  At the moment, I'm focusing on testing to try to make a good of release
for distributions as possible.

When I was porting from v1.3 to v1.4, I installed guile in a strange path and
passed the configure option to Scwm to look there for guile.  I worked great
and Scwm picked up the right files at runtime so I think it's pretty easy to
get Scwm to use it's own version of guile.

Scott