Re: [guile-2.2] threads

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

LilyPond has no thread-safety anywhere. It would be actively harmful
if anybody ever tried to run something on a different thread. If
anything, you should find a way to forbid importing the threads
package.

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> guile-2.2 prints a warning, if module (ice-9 threads) is not imported.
> (This does not happen with guile-1.8 or guile-2.0)
> Import (ice-9 threads) to have access to `call-with-new-thread'.
> Import (ice-9 threads) to have access to `current-thread'.
>
> As suggested by Arne Babenhauserheide from the guile-mailing list, in
> memory-trace.scm we could do something at the lines of
>
> ;; TODO if lilypond moves to guile-2.2 merge the next two settings
> (use-modules (lily)
>              (ice-9 format))
> (if guile-v2 (use-modules (ice-9 threads)))
>
> This would even be compatible with guile-1.8 (ofcourse one would do it
> with a little different coding)
>
> Though, I think we currently have no need for it. So importing (ice-9
> threads) would be pointless.
> If I'm right in this, would there be any other way to avoid this
> warning-messages?
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm
>
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