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[Ingolf Schäfer <address@hidden>]

Hi,

Am 03.08.2007 um 03:51 schrieb Kamaraju S Kusumanchi:

> In http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/requirements.en.html it just
> mentions that guile libraries are required for texmacs. Can someone  
> tell me
> what is the minimum version number of guile libraries with which  
> texmacs is
> assured to work? I am interested in both texmacs 1.0.6, 1.0.6.10  
> versions.
> For both these versions is guile-1.6 sufficient? or does it require
> guile-1.8?
Yes, guile-1.6 is sufficient.
> Why I need this information?
> Currently the Debian texmacs packages depend upon guile-1.8-libs  
> package.
> However guile-1.8 does not build upon ia64 architecture. So I am  
> wondering
> if we can reduce the requirement of guile from 1.8 to 1.6. If we do  
> this,
> do we loose any functionality of texmacs?
AFAIK there is no functionality depending on guile-1.8. At least I  
did not feel it in any way in my daily work ;-)

Best,

Ingolf
> It would also be nice if you could update
> http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/requirements.en.html with this
> information.
>
> thanks
> raju
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/