Re: Guile REPL Server

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 09:57 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Le 17/05/2022 à 00:29, Hendursaga a écrit :
> > I'm trying to start a REPL server[1] inside LilyPond's Guile interpreter, 
> > but I can't get it to even load readline support.
> 
> Readline support is an optional feature in Guile. It looks like
> out new infrastructure for building binaries compiles Guile without
> it. We may or may not want to do it (Readline is an extra dependency);
> CCing Jonas on this matter.

Right, this is intentional. I don't find it convincing that the
official binaries should be bigger for everybody to enable an optional
feature (readline support) in a dependency (Guile) that only a very
tiny fraction might ever try to use...

Jonas

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