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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, TeXmacs wrote:
> We are getting close to releasing the next major version 2.1 of TeXmacs
> (planned for september).
Great! The crucial question is: will it be possible to compile and use 
TeXmacs with guile-2.x? guile-1.8 has been removed from most Linux 
distros quite some time ago. It is becoming more and more difficult to 
distribute TeXmacs ax a part of Linux distros (I supose MacOS people have 
the same problem, maybe, Windows people too). I'm the maintainer of the 
TeXmacs package in Gentoo Linux. Now all packages requiring guile-1.8, 
except TeXmacs, have been masked for removal, in preparation to the final 
removal of guile-1.8. I get queries about the progress in porting TeXmacs 
to guile-2 from our QA team all the time, and I don't know what to reply.

It is difficult to have a good publicity for the new version of TeXmacs if 
it is removed from all Linux distros, and cannot be installed in MacOS in 
a natural way (without installing a package which is considered obsolete).

Alas, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If 
you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as 
that.

Andrey