Re: guile-2.0 and debian

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 24 nov 2016 alle 8:14, Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> I am watching the guile-2-threads grow and really do appreciate that! 
> Many thanks to Antonio, Harm, David, Federico, et al for allyour 
> efforts on this!
>
> There is a another question I have in mind: What would it mean to 
> create LilyDev as a container-based-solution? On my laptop and my 
> working machine I regularly use LXC to start Apache or Tomcat inside 
> a container for testing purposes. And if I have to test something I 
> often do that inside a container 
> (https://www.stgraber.org/2014/01/17/lxc-1-0-unprivileged-containers/).

Me too, I think that containers are way better.
But LilyDev was created also (I would say especially) for Mac and 
Windows users, who generally prefer virtual machines.

There's a quick solution to "kill two birds with one stone".
Antonio showed us how to turn the ISO image into something which can be 
run in a container:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-11/txtvFisIoyS8i.txt

Even though you still have to download 1GB of ISO file.

> Is there a script, which prepares an ubuntu installation for lilydev 
> (beside apt-get build-dep lilypond) and gub? That way one can set up 
> a container, run the setup-script (prob. with options to select 
> either guile 1.8 or 2.0.12/13). The lilydev-solution is just an iso 
> to download. But if you want to test with different guile-versions, 
> you have to provide a vm for each one of them. Containers are much 
> lighter and smaller and use less cpu and take the memory they need - 
> not a fixed amount in the vm-settings.
>
> Summary: Which steps/tasks need to be performed by a setup script to 
> prepare a ubuntu-based installation for lilypond-development and gub 
> (using the local lilypond-sources)?
> I say ubuntu-based as lilydev is based on it. But other distributions 
> might as well work.

LilyDev is based on Debian stable.
Setting up a Linux OS to build LilyPond is quite straightforward. A 
script would make it even easier.
I agree that for Linux users containers are the best approach.

PS
Some time ago Janek started working on a LilyDev based on containers 
stuff, see:
https://github.com/jan-warchol/vagrant-powered-lilydev