Re: To branch or not to branch

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Wed, 2022-09-21 at 12:35 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> 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.

Cool! Yes, the Guile issue remains - the question is how important that
is now...

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