guile-gnutls package for guile 2?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> skribis:

> I had pondered switching to guile-2.0 ages ago, but up until the
> latest upload guile-2.0 was only available on a small subset of archs
> supported by guile-1.8, which is why I shelved the plan. Some archs,
> including ia64 (which afaik is a release-arch) are still missing.

Well, we haven’t received bug reports for IA64, but I don’t think it was
much tested either.  ;-)

If we get a report and I can access a machine on the GCC Compile Farm,
say, then we could try to fix the problem.

> I am not yet sure what is the lesser evil: Not providing guile on some
> archs or  staying with 1.8 for the time being. - Let's ask upstream
> ;-) Ludovic, can you offer a suggestion?

Staying with 1.8 seems like a bad option: it’s very old, and 2.0 is a
completely different beast (new compiler, VM, loads of libs and
features).

However, you probably need to keep 1.8 in the distro for various rdeps.

So, what I would suggest is, ideally, to have guile-gnutls for 2.0 *and*
1.8.  If that’s too much, I would choose 2.0.

Thanks,
Ludo’.