Re: To branch or not to branch

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 21/09/2022 à 09:36, Andrew Bernard a écrit :
> Hello Jonas,
>
> As the present 'owner' of OLL I never thought OLL was a critical 
> dependency of Lilypond. This has never been my understanding. I 
> believe there is an issue with edition engraver, but I can't see how 
> that should stop a significant Lilypond release. If people depend on 
> the edition engraver then they will have to remain on the Lilypond 
> release where it works (I can't recall the version.) As with Lilypond, 
> OLL is totally under-resourced. The number of people currently working 
> on the codebase is 0-1 (the 1 being overworked Jean). I'm not likely 
> to get to fix this for at least a few weeks or even months, sorry to say.


I've just pushed a commit on oll-core that avoids call/cc entirely 
(using the same code as on the description of 
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6430), so this should be 
worked around for now, although the underlying LilyPond/Guile issue of 
course remains.

For the rest, I need to think more, I'll reply later.

(And yes, I don't currently intend to work more on openLilyLib than 
helping it to keep up with recent LilyPond version.)