Re: Guile 2 support

[Sven Axelsson]

On 1 January 2014 00:30, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Fantastic work everyone with getting version 2.18 out of the door.
>
> When I saw the release notice, I immediately wanted to update the Homebrew
> formula (Homebrew is a package manager for Mac OS X). However, I was told
> by the maintainers that an update would not be accepted, unless Lilypond
> would compile with the default Guile which is currently 2.0.9.

Where is the point in not allowing an upgrade from one version requiring
GUILE 1 to another one requiring GUILE 1?

Good question. They have probably gotten stricter regarding there dependency policies.

Or maybe this particular maintainer just had a bad day. Except for the Guile dependency,

which is easily solvable, the Homebrew formula works just fine.

 

> I know that there have been plans of bumping to Guile 2 for a long
> time now. Is this something that is planned for the next release?

Oh, definitely.  It's not like it wasn't planned for 2.16 and 2.14.  But
somebody has to do the heavy lifting.

Of course. Any idea how heavy this lifting would be? I guess a thorough understanding 

of the Lilypond code base is needed, so it requires a real athlete. But if a mere weakling

such as myself can do anything to help, I'd be more than willing. ☺ 

Happy new year everybody!

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