Re: guile-gnome-platform 2.15.92 released

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Andy Wingo wrote:

> This is also the first version that introduces a dependency on
> guile-cairo, available at http://home.gna.org/guile-cairo/.


Trying to up grade (actually, to current bzr) to this caused me a bit of 
dependency hell:

guile-cairo requires cairo >= 1.4.0, but my system (fedora core 6; still 
rather current) only has cairo 1.2.6.

I got somthing working by hacking the cairo additions back out, which 
turned to be relatively easy.  Any chance the guile-cairo requirement 
could be made conditional on finding the necessary version?  Much the same 
way the other sub-packages are only built if their dependencies are found.

I've started pondering how this might be done; the annoying part seems to 
be turning the gdk-spec.scm and gtk-spec.scm into configure-processed .in 
files to substitute a few module names (or the empty string, if no 
guile-cairo). Does this seem like a reasonable approach?


Steve