Re: guile 2.0.0 out

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:19:01PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I don't see a need to support both guile 1.8.x and guile 2.0.x at the
>> > same time -- as far as I'm concerned, we can drop any guile-1.x-isms
>> > as soon as 2.15 begins.
>> 
>> As long as guile is not included with Lilypond, supporting the last
>> stable version in reasonably up-to-date operating system distributions
>> is definitely going to help maintain a healthy developer base.
>
> Hence my absolute insistance on having the required version of
> guile 2.x in lilydev.  Admittedly, I overlooked people using linux
> natively.  My initial guess is that such people (including myself)
> are more than capable of compiling and install guile from source,

If your only use of guile-dev is Lilypond, maybe.  Other than that,
things are going to become a nuisance.

> I know that David already knows this, but for the benefit of
> anybody else reading this email who might be confused: lilypond
> GUB includes guile, so we're not talking about people who want to
> test 2.15.  This only affects people wanting to compile lilypond
> from source, i.e. developers and contributors.

That's what I mean with "maintain a healthy developer base".

-- 
David Kastrup