Re: Welcoming Olivier as new committer

Olivier Dion <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:52:08 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.devel
Message-ID <87ikbckap3.fsf@laura>
On Tue, 03 Mar 2026, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <[email protected]> wrote:
> Olivier Dion <[email protected]> skribis:
>
>> Having a working version of Guile 3 on Windows is very nice.  But, it
>> would be even nicer if bug fixes could be ported to Windows as well in
>> the future (not just some Z version in a blue moon).
>>
>> Which mean, I would like to see if we can try to keep the Windows build
>> working between versions, once we get it worked, says in 3.0.12.
>
> Perhaps =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=9D could add a check in =E2=80=98.guix/manifest=
.scm=E2=80=99 that would (1)
> cross-build Guile to MinGW (it=E2=80=99s already there), and (2) attempt =
to run
> the binaries with Wine (that=E2=80=99s the missing part)?

That would certainly be a great way of having a minimal regression
testing before release!

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Olivier Dion