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Re: An insanely slow guile is the latest standard release!

On Feb 03, Harvey J. Stein decided to present us with:
> 
> I believe that Guile v 1.3 is the one with the read bug causing
> insanely slow startup (even slower than normal, if you can believe
> that).  This is the last official guile release and is getting
> distributed everywhere, built into RPM packages, destined for release
> in the next Redhat distribution, ...

lalo:~> dpkg -s guile1.3
Package: guile1.3
Status: hold ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 52
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
Source: guile-core
Version: 1.3-12

> How about releasing a v 1.3.1 with this bug fixed, so that the latest
> standard release is at least usable?

Seconded :-)

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