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Happy new year to everybody!

Concerning the problems with Guile, I am currently investigating
whether we could include a version of Guile directly into TeXmacs;
probably version 1.6.8, which is the last one without non-trivial
dependencies.  I am aware that this solution is not ideal,
but I am afraid that the upgrade to version 2 will still
require quite a lot of effort.  The positive aspect of
integrating Guile would be that we do not need to worry about
adapting to yet other potential changes in the Guile interface.
My personal opinion is that Guile 2 is so different from Guile 1
that it would have been better to use an entirely different name
instead of forcing people to adapt to an essentially new program.

I will post again as soon as we will have worked out something
that you may test.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:11:07AM +0700, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> I'll not be able to add this release to Gentoo linux.
> 
> In Gentoo, guile-1.x is masked; all packages which depend on it are
> removed, except TeXmacs, which is masked. This means that,
> theoretically, any user can locally unmask guile-1.x and TeXmacs and
> install them (Gentoo is source-based, all packages are compiled on
> the user's computer). But after masking guile-1.x, an increasing
> number of packages started to declare that they depend on guile-2.x.
> This is natural. Both versions of guile cannot be installed in the
> system simultaneously. I kept guile-1.x and TeXmacs in my computer
> as long as I could, but this started to prevent normal updates of
> many unrelated packages. So, regretfully, I had to remove guile-1.x
> and TeXmacs from my computer. Now I cannot check that the new
> release compiles, and hence cannot commit it to Gentoo.
> 
> There will be no new releases of TeXmacs in Gentoo. They would be
> almost useless anyway, because only a tiny fraction of users would
> risk to unmask locally some masked packages.
> 
> Andrey