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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

I’m very interested in updating the scheme support. If some schemer around is 
interested I can share with him my understading of the problem.

I evaluated chibi scheme as replacement but the problem is that his support 
for used defined environment is a bit shallow (we need environments because 
TeXmacs rely on tricky non-portable machinery to have his module system 
working).

An interesting possibility is s7 which is a small, dynamic scheme near to 
guile.

Or we go for guile 2.2… which is also possible. but something has to be done 
since the codebase seems not compatible anymore due to compilation/evaluation 
separation in modern guile.

max


> On 16. Apr 2018, at 15:43, Philippe Joyez <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Texmacs won't be back in Debian official repos in the near future because 
> the
> Scheme scripts engine Texmacs uses (Guile 1.8) is no longer available in
> Debian (too old, deprecated). Replacing Guile 1.8 by another Scheme engine
> (not necessarily Guile 2.x) is of course the way to go, but it is a highly
> non-trivial task.
> 
> Meanwhile you can install Texmacs (with Guile 1.8) from the repo indicated 
> by
> Henri; this works well. As an alternative one may also use the 
> (experimental)
> Appimage:
> https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/slowphil:/texmacs-devel/AppImage/
> 
> Philippe