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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:57:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
To: "Wojciech Kazubski (wk AT ire DOT pw DOT edu DOT pl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Geda-gaf and guile 2.2
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Hi Wojciech,

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, Wojciech Kazubski (wk AT ire DOT pw DOT edu DOT pl) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Recently geda-gaf (version 1.8.2) stopped building for openSUSE 
> Tumbleweed due to upgrade from guile 2.0 to guile 2.2. The same is for 
> development version 1.9.2.
>
> Is any patch available to fix this?

the general idea is to phase Guile out of gEDA/gaf since users relying on 
legacy Guile setups tend to use lepton-eda anyway.  (The ability to use 
gnetlist backends written in Guile won't be affected; gnetlist is still 
going to be 100% backward-compatible.)

This is not going to happen overnight, though, so at least for 1.9.3, 
Guile will still be a dependency.

Is installing Guile 2.0 in parallel to Guile 2.2 an option for you?

I'm somewhat reluctant to put effort into something that's going to be 
removed anyway, but if Guile 2.2 support can be added without too much 
effort, I'm happy to include this in 1.9.3.

Roland