Hi Karl, On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone is presently working on patching TeXmacs so that it > will build and run with Guile 2.0. In the Guile-2.0 NEWS file, I see that > "The GH interface (deprecated in version 1.6, 2001) was removed." TeXmacs > fails to build because it's looking for <guile/gh.h> which is no longer > present.
Yes, I am aware of the problem, but I have not really been working on it yet. Guile induces a *lot* of problems at the moment and it is not even clear that we really want to go all the way to Guile 2.*. On the one hand, it is true that Guile 2.0 includes a much faster byte code interpreter. On the other hand though, Guile is growing more and more maximalistic: the number of dependencies is going out of hand, making portability a major concern. Also, Guile 2.0 now relies on Boehm GC for garbage collection; having used this garbage collector in another project, I am very suspicious and fear that this move may introduce subtle bugs and make code harder to debug. I have discussed these issues on the GNU developers list and the Guile developers are willing to make things a little bit better. Yet, it is not clear at all that this will be enough. Massimiliano has started to look for possible replacements of Guile. Another solution would be to stick to an old version, include the sources with TeXmacs and take care of maintainance issues ourselves. Best wishes, --Joris _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
