Re: Blockers for Guile 2.2

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi all,

> there are two types of testers of development versions.
> 
> (1) The casual user that needs this and that feature fixed, and who
>    isn't satisfied with the stable release and curious enough to
>    update.  I think that we are going to lose a significant portion
>    of people if development versions are much slower for no immediate
>    benefits.
> 
> (2) The hardcore development team and related friends, who are willing
>    to bear the slowness, ironing out issues on the way to recent
>    Guile versions.

In certain ways, I'm part of both of those groups.  ;)

I'll definitely freeze my "power user" version on the one right before any 
significant slowdown is introduced: my engraving work tends to be 
mission-critical and time-sensitive, and given my predilection to getting 
things done at the last possible moment ;) I need all the speed I can get when 
it comes to score compilation.

But I'm happy and comfortable having multiple versions on my system (yay 
Frescobaldi!), so I'm also able to work on and test the absolute bleeding-edge 
version(s) when my time and energy [and project load] allow.

Cheers,
Kieren.