Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 19 Apr 2011 03:15, CRLF0710 crlf0...@gmail.com writes: Guile 2.0 has been there for some time. Why there's still not any guile-2.0 package in linux distributions? Did they have trouble packaging it? It's only been out for a couple months, and there are a number of reverse dependencies,

Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Dmitry Dzhus d...@dzhus.org writes: CRLF0710 wrote: Guile 2.0 has been there for some time. Why there's still not any guile-2.0 package in linux distributions? There's a Guile 2.0 ebuild in Gentoo Portage main tree, also Lisp team provides ebuilds for building trunk version of

Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-18 Thread CRLF0710
Guile 2.0 has been there for some time. Why there's still not any guile-2.0 package in linux distributions? Did they have trouble packaging it? By the way, is the .go file portable? Building them(rnrs, ice-9 etc) during compiling guile takes so long... Thanks -- CrLF.0710

Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-18 Thread Noah Lavine
I don't know about the packaging, but I think the .go files depend on the endianness of the machine but nothing else. So you should be able to move them between different little-endian or big-endian machines (unless I'm wrong). But it seems much safer to me to just compile things. You shouldn't

Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-18 Thread CRLF0710
Thanks. I want to deploy guile 2.0 to about ten machines ( of our development team members'). Since they have the same endianness maybe i'll give this a try... But now i worry most about the deployment of our final software. The deployment will be in September. Well, most of the dependencies can