Quoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ---- Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [guile-pg and guile 1.8] >> >> I was hoping his guile-pg would work because it doesn't explicity >> state that a 1.4.x guile is required like some of his other packages >> do. >> >> It works fine under 1.6. What it needs is the feature, deprecated in >> 1.6 and removed in 1.8, of looking for a shlib when a module is used, >> and loading it and running the init function. The 1.8 way is to have a >> scheme stub that dynlinks the module and exports the symbols. So >> guile-pg needs a new .scm file that does this, and I suspect that's all >> that's required but I'm not sure. > > That is one issue but not all. There are other apis that were > deprecated in 1.6 and finally removed in 1.8. I'm pretty sure it's > not possible to wite a C Guile extension that works without change on > 1.4 *and* 1.8.
Thanks for the clarifications. Sebastian
